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Mrs. William Spencer Murray [Ella R. Murray] of Connecticut is one of the prominent members of the Advisory Council of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Mrs. Murray was formerly President of the New Haven Equal Franchise League and the Women's Political Union of Connecticut. She is now Secretary of the latter association and Chairman of the Third Congressional District of Connecticut under the Congressional Union.
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Miss Clara Louise Thompson of Missouri, one of the prominent members of the Advisory Council of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, is President of Latin at Rockford College, Illinois. Miss Thompson held for three years the fellowship in Latin and Greek at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the only woman who ever won the American Fellowship at the Classical School in Rome. Miss Thompson was formerly field secretary of the Missouri Equal Suffrage League.
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Edith Wynne Matthison - Public domain portrait photograph
Miss Edythe [Edith] Wynne Matthison of Connecticut is one of the prominent members of the Advisory Council of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Miss Matthison is well known to all Americans for her brilliant work on the stage, particularly for her acting in "Every Woman." Few realize however, the strong interest which she feels in the suffrage movement and the active support which she is enabled to give the Congressional Union.
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Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of actress Edith Wynne Matthison. Autographed "Yours sincerely, Edith Wynne Matthison."
Title transcribed from item. Life dates obtained from research sources.
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 3, no. 12 (Mar. 20, 1915): 5. Captioned: "Miss Edythe Wynne Matthison." Illustration for story "Meeting of the Advisory Council in New York."
Suffragettes Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the late 1800s, women worked for broad-based economic and political equality and for social reforms, and sought to change voting laws in order to allow them to vote. National and international organizations formed to coordinate efforts to gain voting rights, especially the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (founded in 1904, Berlin, Germany), and also worked for equal civil rights for women. Women who owned property gained the right to vote in the Isle of Man in 1881, and in 1893, the British colony of New Zealand granted all women the right to vote. Most independent countries enacted women's suffrage in the interwar era, including Canada in 1917; Britain, Germany, Poland in 1918; Austria and the Netherlands in 1919; and the United States in 1920. Leslie Hume argues that the First World War changed the popular mood: "The women's contribution to the war effort challenged the notion of women's physical and mental inferiority and made it more difficult to maintain that women were, both by constitution and temperament, unfit to vote. If women could work in munitions factories, it seemed both ungrateful and illogical to deny them a place in the polling booth. But the vote was much more than simply a reward for war work; the point was that women's participation in the war helped to dispel the fears that surrounded women's entry into the public arena..."
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