unknown (1893) Woman's Part in the Opening of the Great Exhibition. The Woman's Herald (Women's Penny Paper) (14). p. 220.
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Article detailling women's role in the opening of the Great Exhibition in Chicago, among them Mrs. Palmer, who is praised as an able speaker that "manages to be forgotten while her subject gains heartiest hearing." In the course of the opening ceremony, she made "a fine address, including an eloquent plea for the right of women to work," and urging society and social norms to go with the times. Afterwards, Mme Marietta read an address prepared by the Countess de Brazza. The British speakers included Mrs. Bedford and the Countess of Aberdeen. Their speeches were followed by an address by Princess Schalowsky from Russia, who spoke about women's situation in the Russian Empire, and the benefits which the opening of the medical profession to them had brought by Mrs. Trautmann then expressed her thanks to Mrs. Palmer for her services. These opening addresses were then followed by the ceremony of Mrs. Palmer hammering the "last nail" into a piece of wood, and another address by her on current political, social and cultural matters and their significance to women.
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