The English Women’s Suffrage Journal, November, 1886, reported: “Mrs. ------ rose to move a resolution. After reading a memorial, she said: ‘Now, when I was asked to add a few words of support to the memorial I have just read, my first feeling was that I was very far from the right person to do so, inasmuch as being a married woman--and therefore disqualified--and rightly disqualified,” etc.