Clara county, J.
J. Owen, the able editor of the _San Jose Mercury_; Laura J.
Watkins, Hon. O. H. Smith and wife, Mrs. G. B. McKee, Mrs.
McFarland, Mrs. Herman, Mrs. Montgomery, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. J. J.
Crawford, Mrs. R. B. Hall, Mrs. Knox, Mrs. Wallis, Mrs. C. M.
Putney, Mrs. Damon, Miss Walsh, and many others, have all helped
the good cause in San Jose; while Louisa Smith of Santa Clara, a
lady of advancing years, was ever a faithful friend of the cause,
as was also Miss Emma S. Sleeper of Mountain View, formerly of Mt.
Morris, N. Y. In Nevada county, originally the home of Senator A.
A. Sargent, the question of woman suffrage was agitated at an early
day. The most active friends were: Ellen Clark Sargent, Emily
Rolfe, Mrs. Leavett, Mrs. E. P. Keeney, Mrs. E. Loyed, Elmira Eddy,
Mr. and Mrs. William Stevens, Mrs. Hanson, Judge Palmer and Mrs.
Cynthia Palmer.

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CHAPTER LVI.

GREAT BRITAIN.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE SUCCESSIVE STEPS OF PROGRESS TOWARDS
FREEDOM FOR WOMEN.

1848. Queen's College, Harley street, London, founded for girls.

1849. Bedford College, London, founded; incorporated, 1869.

1850. North London Collegiate School for girls opened by Miss
Buss, April 4.

1854. Cheltenham Ladies' College commenced.... Miss Nightingale
goes to Sentari; from hence may be dated the beginning of
training schools for nurses, metropolitan associations for
nursing the poor, etc., etc.

1856. Female Artists' Society founded.

1857. Divorce and Matrimonial Causes act passed, by which divorce
and judicial separation became attainable in course of law....
Ladies' Sanitary Association, founded October 1.

1858. _Englishwoman's Journal_ started (now _Englishwoman's
Review_) by Bessie R. Parkes and Mdme. Bodichon, March 2....
First swimming bath for ladies, opened in Marylebone, July 14.

1859. Society for the Employment of Women established in London,
June 22.

1860. Law-copying Office for women opened February 15....
Victoria Printing Press, established March 26.... Institution for
the Employment of Needle-women commenced.... First admission of
women students to the Royal Academy (Miss Herford).

1861. Lectures on Physiology to ladies at University College,
April.

1862. Social Science Congress in London; though not the first
time ladies had r