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MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History

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ary Borden was born in 1886 with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth: Her father, a prominent Chicago lawyer, had struck it rich as one of the lead investors in a fabulously successful silver-mining venture in Colorado. After graduating from Vassar College in 1907, Borden embarked on a chaperoned trip around the world and met George Douglas Turner, a Scottish lay missionary. The two were married in 1908 and later settled in London, where Borden joined the suffragette movement andThe Mistress of Kingdoms

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