Chairperson of the North of England Society for Women’s Suffrage. Manchester’s first woman councillor. Active in women’s peace campaigns during First World War. The photograph shows her at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1909.
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Margaret Ashton
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Laurence Housman
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Minnie Lansbury
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Isabella Ford
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Emily Davies
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