Suffrage Alliance Congress with Fawcett presiding, London 1909. Top row from left: Thora Daugaard (Denmark), Louise Qvam (Norway), Aletta Jacobs (Netherlands), Annie Furuhjelm (Finland), Zinaida Mirowitch (Zinaida Ivanova) (Russia), Käthe Schirmacher (Germany), Klara Honneger (Switzerland), unidentified. Bottom left: Unidentified, Anna Bugge (Sweden), Anna Howard Shaw (USA), Millicent Fawcett (Presiding, England), Carrie Chapman Catt (USA), F. M. Qvam (Norway), Anita Augspurg (Germany).

The Mud March did not secure the vote, but it did prove that women could organize publicly, command attention, and claim political space without abandoning restraint. It laid the groundwork for everything that came after.

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