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Subject

Women - Womens Suffrage. Suffragettes.

Description

Conservative & Unionist Women's Franchise Association lantern lecture, Public Hall, Kineton. 'Women's work in the Empire'. Report that Franchise Bill taken to committee next Friday. Resolution passed 'This meeting urges upon the Government the necessity of including some measure of women's suffrage in the reform Bill'. Mentions Mrs Basil Hanbury, lecturer; Lady Willoughby de Broke, chair; Mrs Nott Bower, speaker, previous local government worker; Hon. John Verney, Mrs & Miss Gaskell, Miss Dugdale, Miss Donisthorpe, Miss C. Verney, Miss Brand, Mrs Griffin, Mr & Mrs F. Griffin, Mrs Hiatt, attendees.