Fawcett Society

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...

EGB and Esther Roper again offered some support to Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney after their landmark protest at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on 13 October 1905. But in 1906, they and other...

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...

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...

The women formed this committee (a break-away group from the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage ) after backing Labour candidate David Shackleton in a by-election. In exchange for the support of EGB ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...