In Search Of Emily

Andrew Griffin has followed in Emily Wilding Davison’s footsteps to discover what drove this infamous, militant suffragette. Visits to Manchester, London, Newcastle, Aberdeen and Northumberland to read on-the-spot newspaper reports and courtroom transcripts gave the writer a fresh insight and a plausible explanation for her death under the King’s horse in the 1913 Derby. ‘In Search of Emily’ is eighty pages of entertaining detective work in which layer upon layer is revealed to get us nearer to the truth. ‘There are so many myths and misconceptions about this remarkable campaigner and I believe the conclusion of Clare Balding’s ‘Secrets of a Suffragette’ TV documentary was fundamentally mistaken.’
In Search of Emily is also the story of the suffragette movement and the maverick involvement of this funny, feisty, fearless ‘Northumbrian lassie’.

Andrew Griffin can be contacted on andygriffin66@gmail.com
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See also Andrew Griffin’s Facebook for pictures of Emily Davison’s life and times.

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