womenssuffrage

Margaret Ogg is best known for her extensive political, social, and feminist activities. Additionally, she was a poet, writer, and an accomplished musician, playing viola in the family quartet, as well as holding membership with the Musical Association. A staunch monarchist and anti-socialist, Ogg actively toured outback townships in Queensland promoting women's suffrage and encouraging pioneer women to become involved in state and national affairs. As a founder, co-founder, and member of many Queensland women's organisations, she was consistently at the forefront of political and social campaigns to secure reforms for Queensland's women and children. Ogg remained an active member of the Brisbane political and cultural scene up until her death. Margaret Ogg was multitalented, intellectual, community-minded, indomitable, and quick-witted. Shortly before her death, in a letter dated 28 October 1946, Miss Ogg wrote: "No woman can do more than her little bit - often falling far short of intention, but it has been my privilege to have as co-workers some of the finest women in Queensland, and the success and development which attended our efforts was, and is due to their loyalty and self-sacrifice, without which no sure foundation can be laid". Source: trove.nla.gov.au/people/756065?c=people

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 18 May 1907 to elect the 72 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The election was the first one in which women had the right to vote. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Queensland_state_election

Mrs. Margaret Howe holds the emblem representing the Oregon delegation at a women's suffrage parade in 1913 in Washington DC. (Note the NA banner hanging on the building. NA was the National American Women's Suffrage Association). At this march/ parade, the women held banners representing states that already had women's suffrage. Oregon women obtained the right to vote in 1912.