Editorial: Women’s Suffrage Advocates & “Venerable Hen-Hussies”

Waukegan Weekly Gazette · February 19, 1870

Editorial: Women’s Suffrage Advocates & “Venerable Hen-Hussies”

An editorial ridiculing the women’s suffrage movement names Myra Bradwell among its prominent advocates and dismisses male supporters, including her husband, Judge James Bradwell, as “venerable hen-hussies.”