Fawcett Society

In 1888, the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage (a group whose name and composition had already undergone changes) separated into two entities. JB was a part of the group which retained...

In an interview in 1896, SG made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand...

VW appeared with Ethel Smyth on the platform of the London and National Society for Women's Service (LNSWS, later renamed the Fawcett Society in honour of Millicent Garrett Fawcett ).

Firmly committed to doing everything in [her] power to protect the property, the persons and the parental rights of women,FPC was involved in the women's suffrage campaign from its inception in 1866...

Henrietta Müller 's public engagement with the social and political advancement of women was deeply involved and far reaching. She was committed to a host of feminist organizations, many of which she founded, and which...

VW worked long and hard on the lengthy novel which finally became The Years. Its genesis goes back to her speech of 21 January 1931 at the London and National Society for Women's Service

HM 's activities as a member of the London School Board , as member and office-holder of the National Society for Women's Suffrage and other organizations, and as a campaigner for better treatment for prostitutes...

At the Settlement in Manchester, EGB supervised a young womens' theatre group and a poetry circle, and participated in a women's debating society called The Fawcett. The group was named after Millicent Garrett Fawcett

Toasts were proposed by suffragist Philippa Strachey and by Ethel Watts (chair of the Junior Council of the London and National Society for Women's Service ), the latter of whom hoped that in the future...

EHD also counted among her friends Gertrude Kinnell , constitutional suffragist and Chairman of the Society for Women's Suffrage (elected in August 1914). EHD once remembered how when the Suffragette movement was at its wildest...

In 1901 future suffrage leader Christabel Pankhurst met Esther Roper at a meeting of the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage (NESWS ). Roper introduced Pankhurst to EGB immediately after this, and the...

In her speech to the London and National Society for Women's Service in 1931, VW described Ethel Smyth as of the race of pioneers, of pathmakers. She has gone before and felled trees and blasted...

Richard Pankhurst was already active in political life and closely interested in the enfranchisement of women. He had a history of involvement with organizations such as the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science...

Dorothy's immediate family was large and vibrant: she had nine surviving siblings, most of whom distinguished themselves in the public realm. Her sister Philippa (Pippa) Strachey (1872-1968) was a longtime suffragist who organized the first...

Henrietta's mother, Maria Henrietta Müller , was of English descent, though she appears to have been born, like her children, in Valparaiso. Mrs. Müller was committed, along with both her daughters...