Emily Wilding Davison was the most famous suffragette to die in the
battle for women's rights after she rushed onto the Epsom
racecourse in 1913 and collided with the King's horse. Her
notorious final act of protest has for decades obscured the
extraordinary life she lived and the impassioned arguments that
underpinned her militancy. In this centenary year of UK women first
receiving the franchise, this biography reveals the true story of
Davison's life and times. A middle-class governess for most of her
adulthood, she pivoted towards violence, vandalism, jail time and
force-feeding only in her final years. Lucy Fisher, a Times
journalist, draws on the suffragette's own words, contemporary
press reports, local histories and academic scholarship to paint a
vivid picture of a strange life and a tragic finale.
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