Miss Elizabeth Wilmhurst French

Gender: Female

Marital Status: Single

Occupation: Wife of a grocer and wheelwright

1866 Petition: Yes

Petition Area: Collier Street, Staplehurst, Kent, England

Sources:

Other sources: https://www.parliament.uk/1866
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey (2006)

Further Information:

Additional Information: One year after signing the petition, Elizabeth presented Kent's first own women's suffrage petition in 1867.

Other Suffrage Activities: Elizabeth was quite a social radical for her time, being openly in favour of birth control and wearing trousers when this was seen as a 'deviant' activity for women.

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