Author Guest Post: Michelle Rosenberg – Pen & Sword Blog
Top 10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the 19 th Century Suffragette and Mountaineer Annie hung a “Votes for Women” banner on Mount Coropuna in Peru at the age of 61 years old. It had taken her five attempts over four years and she was the first person to do it. She later referred to the experience as a ‘horrible nightmare’. She never married and never had children. She did one of the few things open to women at the time: became a teacher, graduating from Rhode Island Normal School, (a teaching establishment) in 1872. Keen to continue, she wanted to apply to Brown University, like her ...
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