Hearts And Minds - The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote

1913 : the last long summer before the war. The country is gripped by suffragette fever. Some admire these impassioned crusaders ; others are aghast at the thought of giving any female a vote. Meanwhile, hundreds of women are stepping out on to the streets of Britain. They are the suffragists : non-militant campaigners for the vote, on an astonishing six-week protest march they call the Great Pilgrimage.
Rich and poor, young and old, they defy convention, risking jobs, family relationships and even their lives to persuade the country to listen to them. The Great Pilgrimage transformed the personal and political lives of women in Britain for ever. Jane Robinson has drawn from diaries, letters and unpublished accounts to tell the inside story, against the dramatic background of the entire suffrage campaign.