Ella Knowles: A Dangerous Woman

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'A Documentary Video.' Subject: 'The life and times of Ella Knowles, a leading nineteenth-century suffragist, a national leader of the Populist Party, and the first woman lawyer in Montana. Until her death in 1911, she challenged societal restrictions on women's occupations and behaviour...Born in Northwood, New Hampshire, in 1860, Knowles graduated from Bates College, where she was the first woman to serve as an editor of the student newspaper and to participate in public debate...' (this description provided by Robert Branham).

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