Mary Ward (suffragist)
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Mary Jane Ward, known to her friends as "Minnie", was a Cambridge-based Irish suffragist, lecturer and writer. In spite of her lack of formal schooling, she was accepted to study at Newnham Hall, Camb
Mary Martin (later Ward) in about 1875
Ladies Dining Society
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The Ladies Dining Society was a private women's dining and discussion club, based at Cambridge University. It was founded in 1890 by the author Louise Creighton and the women's activist Kathleen Lytte
Mary Ward (suffragist)
…strong campaigner for women's access to university education on equal terms to men, and for women's suffrage generally, and was an active member of the Ladies Dining Society, a select group of Cambridge women of similar views. From 1905 she acted as honorary secretary for the Cambridge branch of the National Union of Women's…
Louise Creighton, founder, in later life
Eleanor Sidgwick in 1889
Maud Darwin in 1889