Lydia Becker by Marion Holmes

Author:Marion Holmes [Holmes, Marion]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: London
Published: 1913-01-15T05:27:32+00:00

It was in this year, too, that Mrs. Fawcett gave her first speech on the subject at the first Woman’s Suffrage meeting held in London, on July 17th, 1869. Other speakers came forward as time went on: Mrs. Ashworth Hallett, Miss Taylour, Miss Agnes McLaren, Miss Rhoda Garrett, Miss C. A. Biggs, Lady Anna Gore Langton, and Miss Jessie Craigen became notable orators.

“Heroism.”

It required considerably more courage in those days for women to get up and speak in public than it does to-day, it must be remembered. Our sex has become perhaps a little too glib in these later years of agitation; at least, one cannot imagine a resolution of thanks to women for their “heroism in giving such able and interesting speeches,” such as was passed at one public meeting in the seventies, though I daresay some nervous and inexperienced speakers would still consider it applicable!

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