Pauline Murphy writes on the pioneering Suffragette author who helped found the Women’s Employment Defence League. Helen Blackburn was born into an Anglo-Irish family on May 25th 1842 at Knights Town on Valentia island County Kerry. She was the only daughter of Isabelle Lamb from Durham and Bewicke Blackburn, she had one other sibling, a
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