Fawcett Society

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Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Frances Power Cobbe
Firmly committed to doing everything in [her] power to protect the property, the persons and the parental rights of women,
Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin.
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FPC was involved in the women's suffrage campaign from its inception in 1866...
politics Henrietta Müller
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...
politics Lydia Becker
LB was appointed Secretary of the Manchester committee for the promotion of the enfranchisement of women, an early local branch of what was soon to become the National Society for Women's Suffrage .
Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Source Book Press.
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politics Florence Nightingale
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...
politics Lydia Becker
LB brought to her suffrage activism a complete mastery
Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Source Book Press.
188
of Parliamentary procedure, acting as the official Parliamentary agent of the National Societies for Women's Suffrage .
Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Source Book Press.
188, 174
Helen Blackburn asserts that to members...
politics Emily Davies
ED joined the Executive Committee of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage .
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable.
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politics Christabel Pankhurst
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.
Purvis, June. Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography. Routledge.
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Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press.
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politics Lydia Becker
In 1874 LB supported a suffrage bill brought in by a Conservative MP, which would have given the vote to unmarried women and widows only (on the basis that a married woman would merely duplicate...
politics Helen Blackburn
HB acted as secretary of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
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politics Amelia B. Edwards
She also served as a vice-president of the West of England National Society for Woman's Suffrage .
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott.
Publishing Helen Blackburn
HB 's other works on the suffrage movement and women's rights include A Handy Book of Reference for Irishwomen (1888) and Some Supporters of the Women's Suffrage Movement (published by the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage
Publishing Harriet Taylor
In 1859 Mill reprinted this essay shortly after HT 's death in the second volume of his Dissertations and Discussions.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
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He attributed the essay to its right author and claimed that she...
Textual Production Helen Blackburn
HB 's first publication, a fifteen-page pamphlet entitled Some of the Facts of the Women's Suffrage Question, was published by the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Ray Strachey
RS published Women's Suffrage and Women's Service, the history of the London and National Society for Women's Service .
Chapman, Wayne K., and Janet M. Manson, editors. Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Peace, Politics, and Education. Pace University Press.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
BLSB wrote regularly on feminist topics for the Journal and other periodicals; her articles were often based on papers delivered for the Kensington Society or at the annual meetings of the Social Science Association .

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