Lydia Becker

"Women complain of the want of liberty...these and many other grievances are enough to justify any class of persons in seeking for their removal." -Lydia Becker Lydia Becker; A Cameo Life-Sketch, by Marion Holmes, offers a series of glimpses into Lydia Becker's life and struggles for the cause of universal suffrage in the United Kingdom. Though Becker died in 1890, thirty-eight years later, due in part to her work, the United Kingdom did grant suffrage rights to all women on equal standing with