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The road to suffrage for the women of Leatherhead was often bumpy and unwelcomed by men and women alike. The Women's Suffrage Caravan rolled into Leatherhead on Saturday, 16 May 1908, its presence inciting riots amongst many of the menfolk. The town's Unionist Club in December 1908 passed the motion that it was 'unpropitious' for legislation on the question of women's suffrage and yet, from behind the closed door of her home in Belmont Road, women's rights campaigner Marie Stopes had begun to pe

Author

Lorraine Spindler

Publisher

Pen and Sword History

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526712424

Subjects

Memoir, History, Sociology

Updated

2026-03-25