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Acknowledgements
I should like to thank the librarians of Morley College and Bradford University for their help. The many friends who lovingly read parts of this manuscript and gave me feedback have been immensely supportive, as have those friends who allowed me to include their own precious letters to me. I should also like to thank the librarian of the Fawcett Library for permission to use this excellent feminist library, and for his generosity in permitting me to publish the hitherto unpublished letter from Florence Nightingale.
The editor has tried assiduously to contact every source, and apologizes, where replies have not been received, if sources stated are not correct.