A Woman’s Logic
‘Votes for Women’ campaigner Emmeline Pankhurst served on the Board of Chorlton Workhouse in the 1890s. She found that the bread allowance was more than the inmates could eat, with the excess improperly fed to pigs. So with the inmates’ help (but not the Board’s) she streamlined the distribution, and used the surplus in tasty bread puddings for the elderly.
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