Physical description

Book has a cream cover with six black and white photos of women (clockwise from top left: Margaret Sanger, Emma Goldman, Josephine Butler, Emily Davis, Carolie Norton and Florence Nightingale) Author's name is printed in dark blue on front cover and spine and the title is printed in brown on front cover and spine. The back cover has a summary of the book along with reviews.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

At lower right of page i is a printed black and white donation sticker: black Maltese cross in circle, "This book was donated to Alfred Archival Association Nursing Division by "Marjorie Connor (handwritten in ink) Previous catalogue number is also handwritten in ink on this label.

Summary

'Significant Sisters' traces the lives and careers of eight women, each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or politics. Each forged her own particular brand of feminism, yet all engaged in the battle and limitations imposed upon women's freedom