Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only other member of the party known to be present was Lord Hugh Cecil (Lord Robert's brother), dubbed by Lady Astor " our leading medievalist" on account of his anti-feminist attitude. Said Lord Hugh...
Victor Margueritte, French author: "The Paris boulevards were flooded with a 50,000-copy first edition of The Companion, a sequel I wrote to The Bachelor Girl (La Gargonne), the feminist novel for which I was expelled from the Legion of Honor. In a ' fighting preface' to The Companion I declared that my new heroine, Annik, will arouse more wrath than my previous one, Monique, as she goes further, attaining spiritual emancipation. Monique stopped halfway and got married...
...Rome Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, the presidency passed from America to England. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, veteran president of the Alliance, refused renomination. Mrs. Corbett Ashby, English feminist, was elected in her place...
...agitated at the spectacle of women in politics, in business, in the feminist movement-in anything but the kitchen or the nursery. He has written Mr. Samuel Rea, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad on the subject, and in order to get a rise out of the women, sent a copy of the letter to the Lucy Stone League, an organization advocating the retention by married women of their maiden names. "Does not your Mr. Atterbury know that women average about five ounces less brain matter than the men; and that the part they lack is the reasoning capacity? Does...
...course it is to be expected that the feminist leaders will soon be on Mrs. Mahoney's trail. They will want the clue to her methods of subduing the native tribesmen; they will probably ask her to lead campaigns of conquest all over the world. Her mining successes have provided her with funds for a great crusade; her versatility has been proved; and if her leadership can be enlisted, their causes is assured of victory, Mr. Shaw and the Wyf of Bathe will be vindicated, and the Superman will have...