• By Anna N.
    Jul 23, 2009 11:40 AM 1,943
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    "Modish Slimness Causes A Divorce!"
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    When Women Were Women, And Suffragettes Wielded Switches

    1909 was a violent year for the women's suffrage movement. "The most serious incident," says author Andrew Rosen, occurred "when Winston Churchill, who had just alighted from a railway carriage, was attacked by a suffragette wielding a riding-switch." [The Awl]


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