[[4]] This view has also been supported in France, see Le vote des Femmes, by Ferdinand Buisson, for evidence of women having in ancient times voted and sat in the Parlements of France. Taine also mentions the Countess of Perigord sitting in the États of her province prior to the Revolution (Les Origines de la France Contemporaire, par H. Taine, vol. i. p. 104).
[[5]] Annals of a Yorkshire House, vol. ii. p. 319.
[[6]] Report of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1869.
[[7]] The Life of Mrs. Norton, by Miss Jane Gray Perkins (John Murray).
[[8]] The date of this speech is given in Miss Blackburn's Record of Woman's Suffrage as 1866, the only mistake I have found in her careful and faithful history.
[[9]] See the interesting picture in the staircase of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
[[10]] Morley's Life of Gladstone, vol. i. p. 571.
[[11]] James Mill: a Biography, by Alexander Bain, LL.D., p. 215.
[[12]] Representative Government, by J. S. Mill, pp. 175-180.
[[13]] Dissertations and Discussions, by J. S. Mill, vol. ii. p. 417.