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5 giorni fa · His earliest books (The Mystic Masseur, 1957; The Suffrage of Elvira, 1958; and Miguel Street, 1959) are ironic and satirical accounts of life in the Caribbean. His fourth novel , A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), also set in Trinidad, was a much more important work and won him major recognition.
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14 mag 2024 · May 14, 2024. Jenn Colella as Carrie Chapman Catt (center) in Suffs, a new Broadway musical about the women's suffrage movement Joan Marcus. In 1776, Abigail Adams famously implored her husband...
3 giorni fa · Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane (1867–1954) – physician, activist for women's and children's rights; co-founder of the Association Pro-Derechos de la Mujer; Australia Edith Cowan
4 giorni fa · Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. At the beginning of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vote, increasing the number of those parties' potential constituencies.
13 mag 2024 · Catherine Helen Spence was a writer and activist who sought to improve educational and welfare programs and reform Australia’s voting system. She was a major progressive force for women’s suffrage in late-19th- and early-20th-century Australia, and she was the first woman to be a political candidate in Australia.
15 mag 2024 · Suffrage and Slavery. The women's rights movement was the offspring of abolition. Many people actively supported both reforms. Several participants in the 1848 First Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls had already labored in the anti-slavery movement.
1 giorno fa · The women who are working for this measure are striking at the principle for which their fathers fought during the Civil War. Woman's suffrage comes from the North and the West and from women who do not believe in state's rights and who wish to see negro women using the ballot.
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