Lot 242
Fawcett (Dame Millicent) Autograph Letter signed to Miss Gibson, on the plight of the Women's Suffrage Movement before the First World War, "We suffragists have had a time of great trial just lately seeing our good cause sullied & driven back by the criminal folly of a few fanatics."
Hammer Price: £900
Description
Fawcett (Dame Millicent, leader of the constitutional women's suffrage movement and author, 1847-1929) Autograph Letter signed to Miss Gibson, 4pp., 8vo, 2 Gower Street, [London], 21st July 1912, on the plight of the Women's Suffrage Movement before the First World War, "We suffragists have had a time of great trial just lately seeing our good cause sullied & driven back by the criminal folly of a few fanatics. It is no good reasoning with them. They are not open to reason. I know that although you are not exactly one of us, you will sympathize with us", good naturedly accusing her making a promise and forgetting it, and sending her "a little collection" including photographs, a postcard of the portrait of Fawcett with her husband painted by Ford Madox Brown etc., folds, some foxing.
⁂ Fawcett's view of the suffragette movement.
Description
Fawcett (Dame Millicent, leader of the constitutional women's suffrage movement and author, 1847-1929) Autograph Letter signed to Miss Gibson, 4pp., 8vo, 2 Gower Street, [London], 21st July 1912, on the plight of the Women's Suffrage Movement before the First World War, "We suffragists have had a time of great trial just lately seeing our good cause sullied & driven back by the criminal folly of a few fanatics. It is no good reasoning with them. They are not open to reason. I know that although you are not exactly one of us, you will sympathize with us", good naturedly accusing her making a promise and forgetting it, and sending her "a little collection" including photographs, a postcard of the portrait of Fawcett with her husband painted by Ford Madox Brown etc., folds, some foxing.
⁂ Fawcett's view of the suffragette movement.
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