1. Julia Sarah Anne Cobden-Sanderson was an English socialist, suffragette and vegetarian.
12 Facts About Anne Cobden-Sanderson
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Anne Cobden-Sanderson's parents were Richard Cobden, radical MP and leader of the Anti-Corn Law League, and his Welsh wife Catherine Anne Williams.
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Anne Cobden-Sanderson lived for a time at the home of George MacDonald and later at the home of William Morris.
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Anne Cobden-Sanderson worked for the Independent Labour Party and was arrested as a suffragette in October 1906.
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Anne Cobden-Sanderson was a founding member of the Women's Freedom League and helped form the Women's Tax Resistance League in 1909.
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Anne Cobden-Sanderson addressed the first meeting of the Bryn Mawr College Suffrage Society using the title "Why I went to Prison".
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Anne Cobden-Sanderson went to America with her husband and, while she spoke to women's rights groups, he was welcomed as an "Arts and Crafts" celebrity.
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In 1910, Anne Cobden-Sanderson participated, alongside her sister Ellen Melicent Cobden, in the Women's Suffrage Procession.
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Anne Cobden-Sanderson was active in other causes, such as campaigning for meals and medical inspection for poor children and working as a Poor Law Guardian.
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Anne Cobden-Sanderson was briefly involved with the Society for Physical Research.
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Anne Cobden-Sanderson became a vegetarian at age 20 and authored How I Became a Vegetarian, in 1908.
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Anne Cobden-Sanderson opposed the rich meat diet of the period, arguing it was harmful to health and bad for digestion.