To Miss Edith Parkes Gloucester Manor Hastings October 28th 1853 My Dearest Edith, It has only been two months since we last saw each other, yet I must profess I have missed your companionship dreadfully! I do wish you had not insisted on returning to Gloucester Manor so soon, particularly since Aunt Shaw had offered to take us along on her jaunt to Belgium. Nonetheless, London life has been quite agreeable; I have had ever so …showed first 75 words of 1798 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1798 total…Law Amendment Society and was presented to the House of Lords in March 1856 with 26,000 signatures. That was the ground-breaking moment of the first organised feminist action in Briton. It was rejected first time, however, the ladies did not give up and here we are today to announce the passing of that controversial Bill. Miss Barbara Leigh-Smith shares her success with her close group of fellow activists; Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Harriet Martineau, Mary Somerville and Edith