"Ought women not to be abolished all together?" Louise Brealey reads Clementine Churchill

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Louise Brealey reads Clementine Churchill’s letter to the editor of The Times (28 March 1912)

On March 28th of 1912, an eminent bacteriologist named Almroth Wright wrote a lengthy, pompous letter to The Times in which he argued that women should not be allowed to vote, and in fact should be kept away from politics altogether, due to their supposed psychological and physiological deficiencies. Unsurprisingly his opinion generated many responses, the best of which was the following witty letter from "One of the Doomed," printed in the paper two days later. Unbeknownst to all, its sender, "C.S.C.," was 26-year-old Clementine Churchill.
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Louise Brealey is an actor, journalist, playwright and producer, best known for her role as pathologist Molly Hooper in Sherlock. In 2015 she can be seen on the big screen in indie thriller Containment, as the new regular in Ripper Street on BBC One and with Stephen Mangan in Sky Arts' Birthday. Theatre highlights include Julie in Miss Julie at the Citizens Theatre, Sonya in Uncle Vanya for Peter Hall, and Andromache, Cassandra and Helen of Troy in The Trojan Women at the Gate. She can next be seen on stage in the UK tour of the Royal Court's Constellations.

Louise writes on film, art, music and theatre and has interviewed numerous celebrities including Martin Scorsese, Russell Crowe, Patricia Arquette and the Pet Shop Boys for magazines such as Total Film, Premiere, AnOther magazine and RED. She was deputy editor of Wonderland magazine until 2009. Her first play, Pope Joan, was commissioned and produced by the NYT in 2013. She is an alumnus of the Royal Court's Playwriting Programme.

Louise Brealey reads the letter for LETTERS LIVE.

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