Plug Riots and Chartists, Preston 25% cuts in wages: bread prices rising: most workers not allowed to vote By the age of 8 Elizabeth was not only growing up in the radical city of Manchester but riots were rocking the country. There were the Plug Riots of 1842,... Read More
Elizabeth was born in 1833 and by then Manchester was a radical hotbed. So, how did her young life encourage her to become a feminist? Well, actually the word feminist didn’t enter our language until the 1890s, but from her young days Elizabeth showed the desire to... Read More
Elizabeth was ‘a tiny Jenny-wren of a woman, with bright bird-like eyes, and a little face, child-like in its merriment …’ (Sylvia Pankhurst: 1931) Welcome to my first post about Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, truly a feisty feminist who laid the foundations upon which... Read More
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