Teresa Billington-Greig

Teresa Billington-Greig

Teresa Billington-Greig (1877 - 1964) was a suffragette who created the Women's Freedom League. She left another suffrage organisation the WSPU (Women's Social and Political Union) as she considered the leadership too autocratic.

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