Etta Lemon Av Tessa Boase

<B>Read the fascinating story of one of the greatest unsung figures of the nature conservation movement, founder of the RSPB and icon of early animal rights activism, Etta Lemon.</B><BR/><BR/> A heroine for our times, <B>Etta Lemon</B> <B>campaigned for fifty years against the worldwide slaughter of birds </B>for extravagantly feathered hats. Her legacy is the <B>RSPB</B>, grown from an all-female pressure group of 1889 with the splendidly simple pledge: Wear No Feathers.<BR/><BR/> Etta’s <B>long battle against ‘murderous millinery’</B> triumphed with the Plumage Act of 1921 – but her legacy has been eclipsed by the more glamorous campaign for the vote, led by the elegantly plumed <B>Emmeline Pankhurst</B>.<BR/><BR/> This gripping narrative explores<B> two formidable heroines and their rival, overlapping campaigns.</B> Moving from the feather workers’ slums to high society, from the first female political rally to the rise of the eco-femini