Helen Fraser (feminist)
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Helen Miller Fraser, later Moyes (14 September 1881 – 2 December 1979), was a Scottish suffragist, feminist, educationalist and Liberal Party politician who later emigrated to Australia.
Quotes
[edit]- During that early period, when suffragette tactics consisted of trying to reach the House of Commons, and in the first arrests when speaking in the lobby, my sister Anne was the first Scotswoman arrested. She had gone to London a day or two before. Called by my father to come downstairs, I found him with the Glasgow Herald open before him with a banner headline in the centre page: “Glasgow Councillor’s daughter arrested”. He said, “did you know about this.” I replied, “I knew she was going to a meeting but I did not know anything else. He looked at me under his brows in the way we regarded as serious and I oozed out of the room. He came home in the evening quite reconciled to it, and when Anne came home after fourteen cold days in Holloway Prison he took her to a municipal reception saying to her, “Put on your prettiest dress and come with me.” She looked charming and he introduced her all round as “My prisoner daughter”.
- Describing the women's suffrage movement in Scotland around 1906, Helen Fraser, Moyes, H (1971) A Woman in a Man’s World
Suffrage leaders, local activism, and the movement in Wales
[edit]- I had a lovely time in Wales speaking and building up their branches.
- They chose me to go to Wales because Wales had been difficult when they had tried other people.
- I got to know all the headmistresses you see and nearly all of them suffragists.
- They were swooped into the movement so that Wales had a very representative group of women.
- The most intelligent women, it got the women that were leaders.
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