鈥楳agna Carta and women'.In 1915; to coincide with Magna Carta's 700thanniversary; the suffragette campaigner; Helena Normanton (d. 1957); published this essay on 鈥楳agna Carta and Women'. Appearing in the periodical The Englishwoman; Normanton's essay argued that the disenfranchisement of women contravened Magna Carta's famous clauses 39 and 40. For Normanton; 鈥榠t is expressly contrary to Magna Carta to refuse; deny; or delay; right or justice. The right of the franchise is still unconstitutionally withheld from women; but the spirit of Magna Carta sounds a trumpet-call to them to struggle ever more valiantly to realise its noble ideal.' Helena Normanton went on to become the first female barrister to practise in England; and she was also founder of the Magna Carta Society.May 1915.From: Helena Normanton; The Englishwoman.P.P. 1103. bag; vol. XXVI. no. 77 pp. 134-35London; British Library.