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Review ------ A definitive history of the suffragettes . Atkinson exhorts her readers to salute the suffragettes. She is right to so do. It is easy to assume that women's suffrage was inevitable, but that should not detract from the efforts and losses undertaken by the pioneers so vividly described here (Lucy Fisher The Times) A thrilling and inspiring read! For too long these extraordinary women have been hidden from history. Rise Up Women! should be a standard text in all schools. And will be a treasured handbook for today's feminists (Harriet Harman MP) Impressive and colourful, vivid and meticulous . For a blanket history of the suffragette movement, Diane Atkinson's Rise Up, Women! should be your pick. This hefty volume leaves few stones unturned, chronicling the campaign in scrupulous detail (Independent) Diane Atkinson's detailed and authoritative Rise Up, Women! seems to me to be pretty much a definitive history of the suffragettes ... Hurl this volume at a Westminster window, and it would break in an instant (Rachel Cooke Observer) Glorious .What it does emphasise is the courage of those women (Daisy Goodwin Sunday Times) Substantial and impressive . Surely destined to become a key general text, ranking alongside classic tomes . Atkinson's book provide an accessible, captivating, chronological account that incorporates recent developments as well as first-hand accounts (Times Literary Supplement) An exclusive and captivating story of this remarkable movement (Sunday Express) Scrupulously researched and highly readable (History Today) This is the untold story of the women's suffrage movement at last revealed in glorious 360 detail. Rise Up Women! is heartbreaking, inspiring and incredibly rewarding to read (Dr Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana) Patiently, skilfully and empathetically, Diane Atkinson gives us the fullest, most inful history yet of the suffragette movement and the courageous women who drove it forward to eventual fruition (David Kynaston, author of Austerity Britain) Book Description ---------------- Marking the centenary of female suffrage, this definitive history charts women's fight for the vote through the lives of those who took part, in a timely celebration of an extraordinary struggle