Ebook: From Suffragette to Fascist: the Many Lives of Mary Sophia Allen

Mary Allen first came to notoriety as a thrice-gaoled, window-smashing suffragette. When WSPU activities ceased in 1914, Allen pioneered the first female police force, recruiting and training hundreds of women. Although honored with an OBE for her policing work during the First World War, she was soon infuriating the Establishment by travelling the world in her unauthorised uniform. Forced away from policing in the inter-war period, Mary tried her hand at becoming an acclaimed author, running for Parliament and countering the IRA threat. When her head was turned by a meeting with Hitler, she b.;Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Prologue; 1 A Benevolent Dictatorship; 2 This Suffragette Nonsense; 3 Suffering in the Cause of Womankind; 4 Nursed Back to Health; 5 'Pollies!'; 6 On Actual Police Duty; 7 A Rude Disillusionment; 8 Demands from Abroad; 9 A Good Deal of Feminine Spite; 10 White Slaves; 11 An Accomplished Writer; 12 Women Will Have To Be Used; 13 A Hitler of the Spirit; 14 Yellow and White Flowers; 15 Helen's Loss Has Taken Away All Joy In Life; Appendix I: Mary Allen's 'call to women' issued in November 1933.