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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. The Finnish parliament produced an informative website called ‘Centenary of Women's full political rights in Finland’ which was linked to the website celebrating 100 years of democracy in Finland. See http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/demo.htm. 2. See website ‘Basic reading in US Democracy’, available at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/demo.htm. 3. Queen Elizabeth of Romania, better known as the author Carmen Sylva, for instance, had much sympathy with feminism and stimulated higher education for women in Romania, but drew the line where political rights were concerned, as expressed in a letter to her friend the Empress of Austria/Hungary: ‘[N]ature has not given us male strength nor male logic – of course female labour should be better paid – but political rights seem quite unnecessary to me.’ (Sylva 1916 Sylva, Carmen. 1916. Briefe einer einsamen Königin, Munchen: Braun und Schneider. [Google Scholar]).