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The magnificent seven
Angela V John brings the stories of Welsh women fighting for equality memorably to life, says LYNNE WALSH
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Rocking the Boat: Welsh Women who Championed Equality 1840-1990
by Angela V John
(Parthian, £20)
HISTORIAN and biographer Angela V John has done a superb service in these accounts of seven remarkable Welsh women who stood up to the Establishment, struggled and triumphed.
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Of Margaret Nevinson and Margaret Haig Thomas — the latter became Lady Rhondda — she writes: “Both Margarets were arrested pre-war for suffrage activism yet both became Justices of the Peace in the 1920s.”
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