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Died. Mrs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull Blood Martin, 88, famed suffragist; at Bredon's Norton near Tewkesbury, England. She was born in Homer, Ohio, in 1838. At the age of 14 she married one Dr. Canning Woodhull. Soon after his death, when she was 24, she married again, Col. James H. Blood, whom she divorced. She then moved to Manhattan where she became engaged in the brokerage business with her sister, Tennessee Claflin; published a paper know as Woodhull and Claflin''s Weekly. In 1872 they published an article on the personal morality of Henry Ward Beecher, created...
...MISS PANKHURST FINDS NO THRILL" remarked the press. In London, Christabel Pankhurst, onetime militant suffragist, window-smasher, picket of Parliaments, had sighed meekly. Parliament was soon expected to pass legislation that would give the vote to all women of 21 or more in England. Suffragist Pankhurst said: "It would have been the Seventh Heaven of delight years ago if this had come to pass. But I have changed since then. Now ... I know we can make the same mistakes...
...women who have approached public life from poverty, from the bourgeoisie, from wealth and from social distinction. But one must credit Mrs. Catt with having gone the furthest as a leader of women as women. Despite her advancing age, she is most likely to be named when an oldtime suffragist is asked, "What woman could be President...
...London British feminists crowded to a banquet in honor of Miss Christabel Pankhurst, pioneer militant suffragist, recently returned from Canada. Excerpts from ensuing speeches...
Laughter. The first generation of suffragists "got the bad eggs." said Mrs. Upton. "The next got?just eggs. All we got was stuck-up noses. ... I remember somebody asking me once if it was not a terrible sacrifice being a suffragist and losing all my social position, and I replied that it wasn't all gone because I had dined two nights before with the President of the United States...