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By Keiligh Baker
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It sounds like the beginning of a vaguely inappropriate joke: what do the silent film actress, the suffragette and the most famous deaf-blind woman in history have in common?
But it's no joke. And in this case, fact is probably stranger than fiction because these three women - Charlie Chaplin's mentor, a brick-throwing activist and a revolutionary - were all disabled feminist pioneers of the early twentieth century.
Now, the inner lives of Mabel Normand, Rosa May Billinghurst and Helen Keller have been laid bare with a new "unsanitised" and fictionalised retelling of true events for a podcast.