SARAH GRAND DEAD
Sarah Grand, author of “ The Heavenly Twins,” died at Colne, England, last May at the age of 88. She was a pioneer in the British votes-for-women movement, and was six times Mayor of Bath, in 1923 and from 1925 to 1929. She married at the age of 16. and in private life was Mrs David McFall. She was born in Ireland of English parents, Lieutenant Edward John Bellenden Clarke, R.N., and his wife. Margaret Bell. Clarke. Her husband was an army Surgeon, and most of her life was lived in England. A strong advocate ot higher education for women., she opposed the methods of the more militant suffragists, her dictum being that women who cultivated the best within themselves would do more with a word than the too combative with insistence and arguments.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25303, 13 August 1943, Page 3
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