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My readers may not find it a very thrilling story, but I hope it will reveal to them the early dreams, secret hopes and half-realized ambitions of one very ordinary woman...Looking back on my own life, I feel my greatest enemy has been the cooking stove a sort of tyrant who has kept me in subjection. 'The Hard Way Up' is a unique and absorbing social document a first-hand account of the life and struggles of a working-class woman who became a leader of the Suffragette and Labour movements in the north of England. Whereas most suffragettes came from the middle-class, this autobiography gives a different side of the picture. Hannah Mitchell was born in 1871 in the remote Peak district of Derbyshire. With only a fortnights formal schooling, she escaped from a tyrannical mother to the hard life of domestic service and the miseries of a clothing sweatshop. Marriage, motherhood followed, and through the years the sheer force of her character helped her to extraordinary achievements as a suffragette, Labour Party campaigner, speaker, writer and public figure in the city of Manchester. The story of her life, told with great simplicity and modesty, was found among her papers on her death.

Author

Geoffrey Mitchell

Publisher

Time Warner Books UK

Published

1977

Language

EN

ISBN

9780860680024

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences