She was amongst the first women to be invited to act as vice-presidents of the Society, which was founded in 1816. Others included Priscilla Peckover
(a Quaker minister who edited and published the journal Peace...
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Margaret Bright Lucas
, an influential and active campaigner for women's rights, died.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. “’Changes Are Dangerous’: Women and Temperance in Victorian England”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 193-15.