ABSTRACT
The subjoined letter was sent to the Times on 24 May in consequence of an article opposing the extension of the Parliamentary franchise to women, which appeared in that journal on 23 May. Many women, moreover, are apt to resent much recent legislation which, whilst affecting to protect them, does in reality interfere with their freedom, their convenience, and their means of earning an honest livelihood, and to look with distrust and suspicion upon further legislative proposals of a similar kind pressed on by exclusively masculine influence. In truth, in these and in all similar matters, where the interests of men and women conflict, or seem to do so, it is the great grievance of women that the masculine voice alone is listened to, the male interest alone considered by the majority of those who are not legally responsible to women.
