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Lady Frances - Frances Balfour, Aristocrat Suffragist (Hardcover)
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Lady Frances - Frances Balfour, Aristocrat Suffragist (Hardcover)
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One of Lady France Balfour's eulogists noted that she would be
considered one of Scotland's greatest women, but today, few know
who she was or what she did for British women. Joan B Huffman's
biography is an effort to set the record straight and tell the
first complete and accurate story of this remarkable woman. Lady
Frances Balfour's parents and grandparents were forward-thinking,
and she was interested in the world of politics from an early age.
When she married Eustace Balfour, brother of Arthur Balfour, she
continued to be intrigued by politics. As a woman in the late
nineteenth/early twentieth centuries, however, she had practically
no power, and had to seek other methods of pursuing her interests.
In 1889, she found her calling in the fight for suffrage, where she
was the constitutionalists' main lobbyist with Parliament. From
fighting for the rights of working women to jobs and reasonable
incomes; to defending the safety of unaccompanied women lured to
London by charlatans; to supporting Dr. Elsie Inglis, founder of
the Scottish Women's Hospitals; to serving on various government
committees, including one that studied the hugely unfair divorce
laws, Frances worked and served to her last day, despite daily pain
from a hip problem that was incorrectly treated in her youth. Lady
Frances is the only leader of the votes for women campaign to lack
a biography, yet she was the only aristocrat and the only Scot to
have a national leadership role in that campaign. This biography
will appeal to readers interested in British history, particularly
those who want to know more about a key campaigner for women's
rights.
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