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"Violet (or mauve, or mauveine, or aniline purple) was the first colour to be produced as a chemical dye, in 1856, by William Perkins, who was then an 18-year-old trying to synthesise quinine for the treatment of malaria. Instead, he hit upon industrial dye-making and made a great deal of money from violet-coloured clothes sold to women who couldn’t afford purple, a dye created from sea lichens. Purple the colour of emperors and bishops. Violet the colour of suffragettes and queers."

— Anwen Crawford, Live Through This, 33 1/3 (2014)