Book description
Caroline Norton * Elizabeth Blackwell * Florence Nightingale * Emily
Davies * Josephine Butler * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Margaret Sanger *
Emma Goldman
Significant Sisters traces the lives of eight women, each of
whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the
professions, morals or politics: the first woman doctor, the pioneer
of birth control, a radical journalist, and suffragists. Each forged
her own particular brand of feminism, yet all fought bravely to make
real, lasting difference to women's lives, and make us redefine our
own notions of feminism today.
Margaret Forster is the author of many successful and acclaimed
novels, including
Have the Men Had Enough?,
Lady's Maid
,
Diary of an Ordinary Woman
,
Is There Anything You Want?, Over
and
Isa and May
, as well as bestselling memoirs (
Hidden Lives
and
Precious Lives
) and biographies. She is married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies
and lives in London and the Lake District.
