Thus far I had written as Preface to the little Brochure that I printed for the use of the Women’s Suffrage Societies a month ago. But as the whole Thousand was ordered before it came from the printers, it was evident that I ought to publish my work formally, with the many additions I had held back from lack of space, and with the article from the Athenæum, No. 3475, which I had been permitted to incorporate. Amongst the Labour-saving appliances of the day, may be classified collections of verified facts. I trust these may reach the hands of those for whom I write, brave women and fair men.
CHARLOTTE CARMICHAEL STOPES,
31 Torrington Square, W.C.
6th June, 1894.
BRITISH FREEWOMEN
THEIR HISTORICAL PRIVILEGE
CHAPTER I.
PRELIMINARY.
ANCIENT HISTORY AND BRITISH WOMEN.