RICHARD COBDEN'S DAUGHTER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 98, 18 January 1908, Page 11

RICHARD COBDEN'S DAUGHTER.

The ''Boston Woman's Journal" gives a very interesting sketch of; Mrs. Annie Cobden Sanderson, who is lecturing iiv._Amc.rica. Annie Cobden was horn at Dunford, Midlinrst, Sussex, and grow up with her- two sisters (now Mrs. (Jnwin and Mrs. : Fisher) in the peaceful quick of a -country homo. Though she was 'still a child when her father died, sho had already shown special - gifts, and he was very proud of'her, and liked to havo her with him while ho worked. After his death tin? family continued to live in Midhurst, and sho formed friendships tliero with the village people, .who still remember her many kindly acts. Through William Morris, she became interested in the labour movement, and through him, also,

1 ruJepoiulc.'nl Labour, party in . London. She lias been treasurer for years of its Mctropoli-. tan District Council, an office involving a vast amount of work. The "Labour Leader'' says: "It is not too much to say that .'throughout the whole of tho Labour movement she is universally respected, not only beeauso'of Jier personal charm and the. unfailing eliar\itv of her judgment's of others; but also for the sterling quality of the service which she has always rendered, and for the complete subordination of personal considerations to the common weal. , ■ V Soon after their, marriage, sho mid Mr. .Sanderson Jjceamo much interested in socialism. During the visit of the International Socialists to England, they entertained Emile Vandcrveld at. their house, and Sirs. Sanderson ■ learned- to admire his character and gifts. In 1006 she ' attended, the; . interna-; tional Socialist Congress in Milan. 'Although so much interested.' in public questions, Jlrs. Cobden Sanderson-is-by. nature very shy. : No one seeing how charming and self-possessed a speaker . she -is wouklj imagine thai it is only three years since she made her first public speech. It was at'the Free Trade.Hall, in Manchester (wherp, her famous' father had spoke,iv before her), on the ..occasion of a presentation to Kcir Hairdie.' Sho has alwjays been a believer in equal suffrage, but her first- address on that subject was made only about- two years ago, at\a banquet given in ; one of the coimiiittcc rooms of the House of Commons. V, - , Mr. and Mrs. Cobden Sandorson have two children, a son' and a ' daughter. The son, now 23 years old, is employed in; tho'office of his linele, Mr. T. Fisher Unwiii, the publisher. The daughter, a beautiful young'girl just out, accompanies her parents •on this trip to America. . "-. A report appeared in the papers latterly that Commissioner Watchorn at -KUis: Island had threatened'to deport Mrs. Cobden Sanderson .a k s an ex-convict if she persisted in speaking at the suffrage meeting to ho held in New York-last month. This is probably' a canard.—"Boston- Woman's Journal."