"Ought women not to be abolished all together?" Louise Brealey reads Clementine Churchill
Letters Live
2015-06-09
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Louise Brealey reads Clementine Churchill’s letter to the editor of The Times (28 March 1912)
On March 28th of 1912, an eminent bacteriologist named Almroth Wright wrote a lengthy, pompous letter to The Times in which he argued that women should not be allowed to vote, and in fact should be kept away from politics altogether, due to their supposed psychological and physiological deficiencies. Unsurprisingly his opinion generated many responses, the best of which was the following witty letter from "One of the Doomed," printed in the paper two days later. Unbeknownst to all, its sender, "C.S.C.," was 26-year-old Clementine Churchill.
Louise Brealey is an actor, journalist, playwright and producer, best known for her role as pathologist Molly Hooper in Sherlock.
Louise Brealey reads the letter for LETTERS LIVE.
LETTERS LIVE is a series of curated, live events that celebrates the enduring power of literacy correspondence.
On March 28th of 1912, an eminent bacteriologist named Almroth Wright wrote a lengthy, pompous letter to The Times in which he argued that women should not be allowed to vote, and in fact should be kept away from politics altogether, due to their supposed psychological and physiological deficiencies. Unsurprisingly his opinion generated many responses, the best of which was the following witty letter from "One of the Doomed," printed in the paper two days later. Unbeknownst to all, its sender, "C.S.C.," was 26-year-old Clementine Churchill.
Louise Brealey is an actor, journalist, playwright and producer, best known for her role as pathologist Molly Hooper in Sherlock.
Louise Brealey reads the letter for LETTERS LIVE.
LETTERS LIVE is a series of curated, live events that celebrates the enduring power of literacy correspondence.
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