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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:48, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Eliza Ashton

  • ... that following a speech on the subject of marriage to the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales in November 1891, Eliza Ashton was accused of promoting free love and prostitution? Source: "Passions of the first wave feminists pp. 24-25 "from the thoroughly indecent spectre of 'free love' and 'concubinage' - Lady Jersey's terms - that Ashton's proposal was held to have invoked." Also, National Advocate, 16 November 1891 "Mrs Ashton is not posssssed of any great intellect or foresight, since the abolition of marriage would mean the establishment of freelove, and through that, the universality of prostitution."
    • ALT1:... that in November 1891, journalist and suffragist Eliza Ashton was banned from visiting Government House in Sydney after proposing controversial changes to marriage laws? Source: A woman of the future? p.84"Lady Jersey also wrote to Mrs Ashton herself, explaining that she could no longer receive her at Government House. Until that time, Mrs Ashton had been received as the ‘social correspondent’ for the Daily Telegraph."

Moved to mainspace by From Hill To Shore (talk). Self-nominated at 19:05, 26 January 2020 (UTC).


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: None required.

Overall: I would say the original hook is best. We could also use the photo of Eliza that is in the article. EchetusXe 18:53, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Painting of Eliza Ashton in 1880
Painting of Eliza Ashton in 1880
Thanks for the review. Per your suggestion above, I've added the image above scaled to 100 pixels. From Hill To Shore (talk) 21:25, 2 February 2020 (UTC)