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January 1, 1839: Happy birthday Louise de la Ramé! Louise de la Ramé (better known by her pen name Ouida) was a prominent figure in a movement which has been greatly misunderstood and deliberately villianized by later generations with their own agendas: the women's anti-suffrage movement. Louise de la Ramé and other women like her (First Lady Frances Cleveland, journalist Lucy Price, and Special Agent to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Minnie Bronson, to name a few) felt that suffrage would prove detrimental to the power women already wielded and would have no compensating benefit on politics. As De la Ramé wrote, "you can make no nation virtuous by act of parliament." |
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