CLARK, Helen Bright.

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Speech at a Women's Suffrage Congress Held in Bristol, 23rd January 1879. A pamphlet reproducing a lecture presented at a National Society for Women's Suffrage meeting, scarce. Clark argued that women's votes would benefit the country, as they were more "home-loving, more practical and devoted to detail" than men. She also posited that the existence of the women's suffrage movement was "the outward expression, of a great awakening, intellectual and moral, among women".Helen Bright Clark (1840-1927) first joined the women's suffrage movement in 1870 and was still active in NUWSS in 1914. She also campaigned for racial equality. She had met Frederick Douglass as a child, when he visited her father, the radical Liberal MP John Bright. During Douglass's 1886-7 trip to England, Clark hosted him at her house, where he gave a talk on the problems faced by the Black population of the United States, especially those caused by disenfranchisement.We can find only two copies in institutions worldwide, one in the US and one in the Netherlands.Provenance: from the collection of the suffrage historian Elizabeth Crawford.

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