Votes for Women: Anti-Suffrage Meetings at Taunton: On Tuesday afternoon and evening meetings were held at the Parade Assembly rooms under the auspices of the National Union for Opposing Women’s Suffrage, at which addresses were given by Miss Gladys Pott, a well-known opponent of votes for women, and Mr. J. L. Maxse, of London … (description of event …. “Some women even went so far as to marry men who drank, and they deserved all the misery that followed” etc.) … A number of questions having been asked and satisfactorily answered, a vote of tanks to the Chairman and speakers was passed, on the motion of the Hon. Mrs. Corfield, seconded by Mrs. Crossley, of Burton Pynsent.
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