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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking… — Queen Victoria

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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Women's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

Queen Victoria
1870
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Topic
Women's rights
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Letter
Time
1870
Person
Queen Victoria
Provenance
Current citation
Queen Victoria. Quoted in The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928, written by Elizabeth Crawford. Routledge, 2003.
Original citation
Queen Victoria. Letter to Theodore Martin. 29 May 1870.

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