In Praise of Difficult Women
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Violet Gibson, an Irishwoman who attempted to shoot Mussolini, is a character in Evelyn Conlon’s short story collection, Moving About The Place.
In 1926, she fired on ‘Il Duce’ as he walked among the crowd in Rome. Her bullet skimmed his nose.
Violet was sent to an asylum and never released. “Difficult women were locked up for all sorts of reasons,” says Evelyn.
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