Charlotte Despard is a familiar name to anyone who has paid much attention to the magnificent struggle for votes for women. There is much more to her story too.
The movement for women’s suffrage was, inevitably, dominated by middle-class women, but working-class women also found a voice within it and articulated that the right to vote was of interest to them too.
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