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Wilhelmina Sherriff Bain (pictured here on her wedding day in 1914) was one of a few feminists vehemently opposed to the South African War. At the annual conference of the National Council of Women in May 1900 she read an anti-war paper; the following day, the Council distanced itself from her pronouncements
Megan Hutching
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