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“The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.”

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Judith Ellen Foster

Judith Ellen Foster, a mysterious figure from the 19th century, whose life and achievements remain largely unknown. Born in 1840 and died in 1910. more

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