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Anna Maria Priestman

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Priestman died at their Bristol home, 37 Durdham Park, which she shared with her sister Mary Priestman, on 9 October 1914, five days after her sister died. "The outbreak of the First World War was said to have been too much for either herself or Mary Priestman to bear."
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to protest against legislation which undermined the civil rights of those who had been designated prostitutes by the authorities in specified naval and military towns. Her sister Mary Priestman was the secretary of this organization and her sister
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was its treasurer. All three sisters supported international campaigns against the government regulation of prostitution, and continued their family's close association with the
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Priestman, along with members of hers and the Bright family, were important in the creation of some of the first women's suffrage societies, founded in London, Bristol, and Bath.
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Priestman chose to remain single, and discussed her views on marriage in correspondence with her cousin and lifelong friend Jane Pease, who also never married.
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Anna Maria Priestman was born on 23 March 1828, the seventh of nine children of Jonathan Priestman (d. 1863), a wealthy
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Priestman's photographs, papers related to her speeches, diaries, and her correspondence including letters to
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Quaker Women: Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780–1930
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Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts
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Anna Maria, Margaret (Tanner) and Mary Priestman in 1891
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Quaker
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Society of Friends
Margaret Wilson Bragg

Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts
Josephine Butler
Margaret Tanner
temperance movement
Margaret Clark Gillett
Alice Clark
Helen Priestman Bright
Priscilla Bright McLaren
Margaret Tanner
National Archives








"Anna Priestman"
"The Discovery Service"
Quaker Women: Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780–1930
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