The pamphlet was a response to a three-column letter by physician Sir Almroth Wright
to The Times in which he labelled feminism a disease bent on convert[ing] the whole world into an epicene institution...
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Eleanor Rathbone
She issued this as a response to an especially offensive letter on the women's movement by epidemiologist Sir Almroth Wright
, published in the Times about the upcoming Conciliation Bill, scheduled for this date.