Were there any prominent women who were against women suffrage in America or in general?

by Swayingorb786
mancake

Queen Victoria was against women's suffrage. Here's a letter she wrote on the subject:

"I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of "Women's Rights", with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety. Lady Amberley ought to get a good whipping. Were woman to unsex themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection."

It's quoted here.

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Sure! You can read the elaborate arguments of Helen Kendrick Johnson against suffrage here, if you are prepared to read a whole book online:

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_watr_1.htm