1. Anna Paterson Stout, Lady Stout was a feminist social reformer campaigning for equal rights and education for women in both New Zealand and Great Britain.
24 Facts About Anna Stout
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Anna Stout was a founding member of the Women's Christian Temperance Movement in New Zealand, the National Council of Women of New Zealand and helped found the New Zealand Society for the Protection of Women and Children as well as playing a part in the British Suffragette movement.
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Anna Paterson Stout was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1858 to Scottish Presbyterian parents, Jessie Alexander Pollock and her husband, John Logan, a clerk to the superintendent of the Otago Province.
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Anna Stout's parents were active in campaigning for social reforms, notably in the temperance and freethought movements, which had a life-long influence upon Stout.
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Anna Stout accompanied Robert to Wellington for the 1877 Parliamentary session.
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Between 1878 and 1894 Anna Stout gave birth to six children, four sons and two daughters.
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One of their children, Sir Thomas Duncan MacGregor Anna Stout, followed in his father's footsteps as a promoter of education.
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Anna Stout was the first chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington and received a knighthood for his services to medicine and education.
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Anna Stout was a strong proponent of expanding women's higher education, with concern for the education of Maori women in particular.
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Anna Stout was a founding member of the New Zealand branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand in 1885, however it was not until the 1890s that she played a more prominent public role.
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Anna Stout became a vice president with Kate Sheppard as president.
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Anna Stout supported the social purity movement, popular among women reformers in England and America as well as New Zealand.
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Anna Stout helped to found the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Society for the Protection of Women and Children in 1897.
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Anna Stout used her position and connections to influence political behaviour on behalf of women.
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In England, Anna Stout was freed from the constraints of her New Zealand role, while still enjoying its status.
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Anna Stout aligned herself with the Women's Social and Political Union, the militant wing of British suffragism founded by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst in 1903.
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Anna Stout worked to assure anti-suffragists that voting rights for women in New Zealand had not led to the collapse of society.
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Anna Stout's articles appeared in Votes for Women and the Englishwoman and were republished as leaflets and pamphlets by several suffrage associations.
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In 1910 Anna Stout led a New Zealand contingent in a mass demonstration in London's Hyde Park, where she took to a platform to speak.
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On her return to Wellington, at the age of 54, Anna Stout settled into the role of a prominent club woman, taking part in various clubs and societies.
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Anna Stout participated in the English-Speaking Union, the Wellington Pioneer Club, the Wellington Lyceum Club, the Wellington Women's Club, and, during the First World war, the Women's National Reserve of New Zealand.
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Anna Stout contended that putting the women on trial while the men involved went free constituted a double standard.
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In 1922, during a wave of concern over the incidence of venereal disease and fearing the reintroduction of compulsory medical examination of women suspected of prostitution, Anna Stout published a pamphlet opposing medical authorities who were demanding compulsory notification of the venereal diseases.
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Ill throughout the 1920s, Anna Stout become less and less active.