Fawcett Society

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 ).

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...

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

Once she had established her reputation as a writer, AW put her pen and her considerable speaking and practical skills to work for women and for the national education system. She advocated improved education and...

HT addressed the National Society for Women's Suffrage at the Hanover Square Rooms, London.

HT addressed the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage .

HT 's radical socialist principles were evident in her work for educational and land reform, as well as in her effort in 1885 to stand for parliament. As Philippa Levine puts it in the Oxford...

In 1859 Mill reprinted this essay shortly after HT 's death in the second volume of his Dissertations and Discussions. He attributed the essay to its right author and claimed that she...

RS published Women's Suffrage and Women's Service, the history of the London and National Society for Women's Service .

MS served as Chairperson of the Fawcett Society from 1980 to 1982 and was one of its original trustees. In 1981 she joined the Social Democratic Party, or SDP , founded by breakaway members of...

CP met Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper , founders of the North of England Women's Suffrage Society ; she was their political apprentice for the following three years.

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...

Its members included Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy , Jane Cobden , William Lloyd Garrison , Josephine Butler , and Mrs P. A. (Clementia) Taylor (convenor of the first Women's Suffrage Committee formed in London), among others.

In early 1866 FN signed John Stuart Mill 's petition for women's suffrage. She and Mill also exchanged a series of letters on the issue. Although she signed the petition, she thought that married women's...

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...