Lot 47•
PETHICK-LAWRENCE (EMMELINE) My Part in a Changing World, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO KATHERINE PRYCE HUGHES, 1938
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PETHICK-LAWRENCE (EMMELINE)
My Part in a Changing World, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO KATHERINE PRYCE HUGHES, inscribed on front free endpaper "To my beloved "leader" and friend. You opened to me the love of public service... Let me use here again the old signature, Sister Emmeline", portrait frontispiece, some foxing to first and last pages, publisher's black cloth, extremities of spine a little bumped, 8vo, Victor Gollancz, 1938
Footnotes
Scarce autobiography of one of the key figures in the women's suffrage movement, warmly inscribed to her friend and former Sisterhood "leader" Katherine Price Hughes.
Hughes was married to a Wesleyan Methodist minister Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902) and together they conceived the Sisterhood, also known as the Sisters of the People, whose aim was to support the work of the West London Mission with regards to the poor and disadvantaged. As leader of the Sisterhood, she played an active part in advancing the status of women in society and Church, although she did distance herself from the more extreme aspects of the suffragette movement. Hughes was one of the first women elected to the World Missionary Conference in 1911.
Provenance: Katherine Price Hughes (1853-1948), inscription from the author on front free endpaper.