Suffragettes Recalled
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, June 9. A former suffagette, Mrs Margery Corbett-Ashby, a militant campaigner for women’s rights in the early days of this century, now milder but still sprightly at 84, has opened an exhibition which traces women’s struggle for equality over the last 100 years.
Among the exhibits are banners carried by the women in their demonstration marches mainly between 1910 and 1914 when the suffragette movement was at its height in England. Police posters for two “wanted” suffragettes describe them as “dangerous criminals and said to be capable of doing any damage.”
Another exhibit Is a letter written by a suffragette, Alison Neilan, in 1909 on toilet paper while she was in Holloway gaol and smuggled out. It told a friend she had gone on a hunger strike.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31083, 11 June 1966, Page 2
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