Peter Domankiewicz has written a blog in which he suggests, and cites evidence, that William Friese-Greene was a supporter of women's rights. Friese-Greene was active when such issues were very topical and the subject of wide debate and in a lecture he gave to Bath Photographic Society in 1890 he stated: '‘Now the next subject I shall connect with this paper, or at least the movement or movements of photography, is the ladies. . .’.
The blog can be read here: https://www.bristolideas.co.uk/read/friese-greene-protofeminist/?fbclid=IwAR3CmLidCZjL4CjWDRS23dHTNoIQh2m6bFlyHemtT_ozVkY7DRfx2qm9tr0
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