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British organisers and spoke in favour of the men's right to exclude women, knowing that this would exclude Mary. Eventually women were allowed
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He died one month later; Margaret settled his affairs and she and Mary went on a tour of New
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that when the one was uptorn the other could never take quite the same hold on life again.”
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concerning a women's anti-slavery committee that created the first
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experienced in 1840 was one of the catalysts for the
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1093:. December 5, 1896
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