Women's suffrage: a short history of a great movement

It is not to be thought of that the floodOf British freedom, which to the open seaOf the world's praise, from dark antiquityHath flowed "with pomp of waters unwithstood"—Road by which all might come and go that would,And bear out freights of worth to foreign lands;That this most famous stream in bogs and sandsShould perish, and to evil and to goodBe lost for ever. In our halls is hungArmoury of the invincible knights of old:We must be free or die, who speak the tongueThat Shakespeare spake—the laith and morals holdWhich Milton held. In everything we're sprungOf earth's first blood, have titles manifold.

—W. Wordsworth.