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Ethel Smyth’s “March of the Women,” Art by Margaret Morris

Songsheet of 'The March of the Women', 1911. Artist: Margaret Morris. Image shot 1911. From Wikimedia Commons.

Two women lead the way. One with the tricolored flag—white, purple, and green– of the women’s movement. The other with a baby in her arms. Behind them a long line of women who had never cast a vote. If you can’t cast a vote, cast a rock through a parliament member’s window. That’s why Ethel […]