Advocates of Female Suffrage.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 414, 26 October 1889, Page 3

Advocates of Female Suffrage.

In last month's ' Nineteenth Century ' 104 ladies— mostly distinguished as the wives of their husbands — made 'An Appeal' against women's suffrage. In the July number of the 'Fortnightly' there is ' A Reply ' in favour of it. More than 2,000 women have signed it, and the names are dirided into ten classes. Of some of these classes it is not necessary to give any particulars ; for, practically, the whole of the 1 women's world ' included vrithin tlieni u favourable to the movement. Thus nearly all the women who have madejjpsitions for themselves as poor law guardian?, ttachers, students, doctors, and nurses {ire in favour of fofnale suffrage. Eliminating these, we find the best known names in .the ' Fortnightly's' list fall into the following elawics :— (1) General list. (2) * Wives of clergymen, (3) Social and philanthropic, (4) Literary, (5) Art and music. We subjoin a few of the more interesting names under each division :—: —

I.— General List. Countess of Carlisle, Lady Dorothy Nevill, Lady Carrington, Miss Balfour, Mrs R. W. Dale, Mrs Leonard Courtney, Mrs W. E. H. Lecky, Mra T. W. Russell, Mrs George Smith, Mrs Howard Vincent.

ll.— Wivks or Church Digmtaries, Etc Mrs Benson (Archbishop of Canterbury)* Mrs Thomson (Archbishop of York), Mrs Temple (Bi&hop of London), Mrs Goodwin ( Bi&hop of Carlisle), Mrs Llewellyn Davie?, Mrs Edwin Abbott.

lll.— Social and Philanthropic Workeus, MrsS. A. Barnet, Mrs Sheldon Amos, Mrs Percy Bunting. Mrs (General) Booth, Mra Brain well Booth, Alderman Miss Cons, Mrs Josephine Butler.

IV. — Literature. " Mrs Richmond Ritchie (Miss Thackeray), Mrs Pfeiffer, Miss Anna Swanwick, Miss Mathilda Blind, Mrs Emily Crawford (' Daily News,' Paris). Miss Amelia B. Edwards, Miss Betham-Edwards, Miss Mubel Robinson, Miss Olive Schreiner, Miss Edith Simcox, Mrs Augustus Webster.

V. — Akt and Music. Madame Antoinette Steiling, Miss Evelyn Picketing (Mrs Ye Morgan), MisrB Margaret T. Dickeee, Mrs Jopling, Miss Jessie Mac»»e<jor, Mrs Felix Moscheles, Miss Ethel Wcbling.