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activities. Offices were given to the ladies but little help. They raised funds for the League and for the support of prisoners and their families. They distributed Land League wooden huts to shelter evicted tenant families and by the beginning of 1882 they had 500 branches, thousands of women members and considerable publicity. They distributed
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This put the Ladies' Land League in serious debt. Anna approached
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Charles Parnell and other leaders were imprisoned in 1881, as predicted, the Ladies' Land League took over their work. Though it was envisioned as a place holder until the men were released, Anna organised branches throughout Ireland, encouraging women to play an active role in Land League
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Kensington School of Design. Parnell was initially successful at art, but she did not pursue a career as a painter, and her known paintings are in private collections in Ireland. When her brother Charles was elected as an MP for
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Ireland could take over the work in their absence. Public opinion at the time was against women in politics, but the
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stated that Anna had "a better knowledge of the social and political forces of
Ireland than any person, man or woman, I have ever met. She would have worked the Land League revolution to a much better conclusion than her great brother".
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