Ursula Bright

Her father, brother and grandfather, Frederick Pennington M.P., were noted for their support for women's rights.

[2] Alongside Lydia Becker the organisation's Secretary, they encouraged Lilly Maxwell, a widowed shop owner, whose name had mistakenly appeared on the register of voters in Manchester, to cast her vote in a by-election on 26 November 1867, which Bright went on to win.

[3] When the Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts was formed in 1869 then Bright was a founder member.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton credited Bright with the achievement in getting the bill passed, writing 'for ten consecutive years she gave her special attention to this bill ... was unwearied in her efforts, in rolling up petitions, scattering tracts, holding meetings'[4] The passing of the Married Women's Property Act was important, as Bright had not considered that married women required the vote until this law was enacted.

Her biographer Elizabeth Crawford notes that her obituaries hardly mentioned her campaigning work because her osteoarthritis had prevented her from involvement with the women's suffrage movement.