The Yorkshire women we should really remember
TODAY it’s a nondescript convenience store in a northern town. But above it is a little room where two sisters mapped out a campaign that was to change the lives of millions of women in the UK. I’ve recently learned about two remarkable Yorkshire women with significant legacies. One was Florence White, who grew up in a Bradford back-to-back, was working in a mill aged 12 - and became the “champion of Britain’s spinsters”. Like many women born in the late 1800s, she lost her fiance in the war that wiped out almost a generation of young men. Instead of accepting her fate as one of...
Source: yorkpress.co.uk