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156:(NUWSS). She was also politically active more generally, taking on various committee roles in the Ashton Women's Liberal Association, the Lancashire and Cheshire Union of Women's Liberal Associations and the Lancashire Union of the British Women's Temperance Association. She was the first woman to be elected to Ashton-under-Lyne's
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slide show and lecture which was summarised as "pictures of unique interest of the forerunners of the movement, the advance guard, the parliamentary champions, the present day workers, election incidents". She toured NUWSS groups, giving the lecture in places such as
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Suffragist movement, focusing on a slow, continuous progression towards victory which neglects to mention some of the conflictual issues. Universal women's suffrage was encoded in law in the UK in 1928.
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Franchise League and its place in contending narratives of the women's suffrage movement". In Joannou, Maroula; Purvis, June (eds.).
256: (equivalent to about £1,206,402 in 2023) in her will and made a legacy to the Ashton-under-Lyne District Infirmary and Children's Hospital, where two beds were kept in memory of her father and sister.
112:. Her father owned a mill and she was raised in relative comfort, although her mother died in 1861. Little is known of her education. Mason grew up in at atmosphere in which issues such as
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working in kitchens in France. After the war, she resumed her activism, becoming chairperson of the Women's Local
Government Society. She also served on the
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