#OTD 1867, Lily Maxwell, a Manchester shopkeeper, voted in a parliamentary by-election, more than fifty years before the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918. Read Dr Kathryn Rix's article for @victoriancommons.bsky.social:
https://victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2017/11/26/a-woman-actually-voted-lily-maxwell-and-the-manchester-by-election-of-november-1867/
https://victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2017/11/26/a-woman-actually-voted-lily-maxwell-and-the-manchester-by-election-of-november-1867/
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