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Article: Women weren't allowed to vote when Anna Parnell, the younger sister of nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell, was born in 1852.
- Article from:
- Evening Herald (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- July 15, 2009
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Women weren't allowed to vote when Anna Parnell, the younger sister of nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell, was born in 1852.
This didn't stop Anna, a woman who appeared destined to marry into the English upper classes, from fighting for the rights of evicted tenants during the Irish land war of the 1880s.
Such political action wasn't without its practical problems for upper-class Anglo-Irish women.
During the reign of Queen Victoria, women wore corsets to thrust breasts upwards and nip in waists, and crinoline hoops to make their buttocks and hips wider. They had problems walking freely, and often fainted.
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