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much as they had done her
predecessor’s. ‘And still they
speak about the weaker sex!’
reads a second Pathé caption,
driving home the fact that
women might now have the
vote but that didn’t mean we
were men’s equals. The clip
ends with Nicks sitting on a
pebbled shore, rubbing her
hands and then clutching a
towel to her face. Repeatedly
described as ‘a London
typist’, she appears to have