SCHREINER, Olive; PETHICK-LAWRENCE, Frederick.

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Woman and Labour. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by one suffrage activist to another: "Hugh Franklin, from FW Pethick Lawrence, April 1911". In March 1911, Franklin was arrested and imprisoned for a month for trying to break Winston Churchill's windows. Upon his release, he went on holiday to Cornwall with the Pethick-Lawrences, where he likely received Woman and Labour.Hugh Franklin (1889-1962) joined the Men's League for Women's Suffrage in 1909. He was imprisoned three times for his militant actions during the women's suffrage campaign, which included attacking Winston Churchill with a dog whip. He went on hunger strike each time he was incarcerated and was force-fed on multiple occasions. He later married the suffragette Elsie Duval.Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was a South African author and intellectual. Her feminist treatise examines the gendered division of labour within multiple historical eras and contemporary cultures. Among other topics, she was concerned with the gender pay gap, writing "The fact that for equal work equally well performed by a man and by a woman, it is ordained that the woman on the ground of her sex alone shall receive a less recompense, is the nearest approach to a wilful and unqualified 'wrong' in the whole relation of woman to society to-day" (p. 24). Later, she expresses her conviction that women are suited for all types of paid work: "From the judge's seat to the legislator's chair; from the statesman's closet to the merchant's o

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