title: The Milliner's Apprentice: Girlhood in Edwardian Yorkshire
author: Hazel Wheeler
description: Hazel Wheeler was born and raised in Huddersfield where her parents and grandparents ran a grocery shop in Deighton for many years. She wrote five books for Amberley Publishing ranging from local to specialist history.
zlib_text: **Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather**
  
  > Fashion, Fury and Feminism –  
  > Women’s Fight for Change
  
  Tessa Boase
  
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  Contents
  
    
  
    1.  _ **Leading Characters**_
    2.  _ **Prologue**_
    3.  **Part 1 – Feathers**
      1. 1 Alice Battershall
      2. 2 Inspector Lakeman
      3. 3 97 Lever Street
      4. 4 Women Undercover
      5. 5 ‘Crewe Factory Girl’
      6. 6 The Skylark
    4.  **Part 2 – Birds**
      1. 7 Young Etta
      2. 8 Young Emmeline
      3. 9 The Train Carriage
      4. 10 Of Bird-Wearing Age
      5. 11 The Tea Party
      6. 12 Emily Williamson
      7. 13 A Very Ambitious Title
      8. 14 Flight
      9. 15 Impracticable Dreamers
      10. 16 Courting the Men
      11. 17 Winifred, Duchess of Portland
      12. 18 The Crème de la Crème
    5.  **Part 3 – Hats**
      1. 19 Dying to Get Out
      2. 20 The Millinery Detectives
      3. 21 Queen Alix
      4. 22 ‘Egret’ Bennett
      5. 23 Deeds Not Words
      6. 24 The Frontal Attack
      7. 25 Mrs Pattinson
      8. 26 The Countess Fabbricotti