June Purvis

About The Author

June Purvis is Professor Emerita of Women’s and Gender History at the University of Portsmouth. She has published extensively on the British women’s suffrage campaigns, especially two highly acclaimed biographies of suffragette leaders, Emmeline Pankhurst and Christabel Pankhurst. Other publications include Votes for Women and The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign: National and International Perspectives. June is the Founding and Managing Editor of the journal Women’s History Review.

Books by June Purvis

The Sturdy Oak (new edition)
By Elizabeth Jordan
Introduction by June Purvis
An early novel in the First Wave of Feminism, with original proceeds donated to the suffrage movement, written by fourteen different, popular writers of the early Twentieth Century.

With a new introduction placing The Sturdy Oak as a foundational story of feminist literature,...
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