MCLAREN, Lady.

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"Better and Happier". First edition, scarce, of this pamphlet countering the points raised against the 1908 Women's Enfranchisement Bill. McLaren put forward "cogently" the "arguments that she and her fellow suffragists had broadcast for the previous forty years" (ODNB). Although the Bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons with a large majority, the government did not turn it into legislation.Laura McLaren (1854-1933), who later became Lady Aberconway, was a horticulturist, writer and suffrage campaigner. The daughter of radical Liberals, McLaren was proud of the fact that she had attended the first public women's suffrage meeting, at which her mother had spoken. She delivered speeches at demonstrations for numerous pro-suffrage groups, and produced numerous publications, including the "very practical" Women's Charter of Rights and Liberties (Crawford, p. 400). We have traced just four copies in institutional holdings. Provenance: from the collection of the suffrage historian Elizabeth Crawford.

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