She Has Always Exercised and Enjoyed Those Rights
Radical Ideas, (Extra)Ordinary People Wendy Erisman Radical Ideas, (Extra)Ordinary People Wendy Erisman

She Has Always Exercised and Enjoyed Those Rights

As I said in my last post, my three times great-granduncle Elias Longley and his wife Margaret Vater Longley were idealists. Among Elias’s many publishing ventures was a newspaper, The Type of the Times. Its slogan was “Devoted to all true interests of the human race,” which, as one writer notes, included “women’s rights, as well as abolition, temperance, and even vegetarianism” (Durack 2020). Of these varied interests, the one to which Margaret, in particular, devoted the most time and energy was women’s suffrage.

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