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"Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country"
- Ellen Wilkinson
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Ellen Wilkinson
between October 8, 1891 and February 6, 1947. He/she was a famous
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