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    Jul 30, 2018 3 minutes

    The Suffragist

    Emmeline Pankhurst 1858-1928

    Women’s militant struggle

    How mild, by comparison with the despatches in the daily newspapers, will seem this chronicle of women’s militant struggle against political and social injustice in one small corner of Europe. Yet let it stand as it was written, with peace – so-called, and civilisation, and orderly government as the background for heroism such as the world has seldom witnessed. The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood, and

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