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Isabella Ford was a prominent Victorian reformer--suffragist, socialist, pacifist, humanist, and trade-unionist. Hannam's (social history, Bristol Polytechnic) biography sets Ford's life and work in their social and political context, with particular attention to her shift from radical liberalism to socialism and labor politics, and the extent to which it can be attributed to Ford's Quaker origins and beliefs and her early political experiences. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR