Carey Mulligan’s reluctant suffragette Maud Watts was born in the laundry where, under the leering harassment of her male supervisor, she worked her way up from the age of seven to 24 to become a sort of straw boss. The young London wife and mother had no time for or interest in participating in politics, nor could she, even if had she the inclination. It’s 1912, and women are still explicitly banned from voting in Great Britain by the 1832 Reform Act and the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act.
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