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When you think of a Victorian woman, she is likely wearing a dress covered in a pretty print. That dress was likely made of calico, which took the newly industrial world by storm. But was the pattern ...

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Annie Besant was a vicar's wife who lost her faith, stood trial for a birth-control pamphlet, led a famous strike, and then ended up leading India's Congress against her own empire.