Fawcett Society

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Clemence Dane
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...
Education Edith Craig
Craig then was tutored privately at Dixton Manor Hall at Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, the home of Mrs Cole's sister, Elizabeth Malleson . Malleson had been an active member of the women's suffrage movement since...
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
The National Society for Women's Suffrage published FPC 's short pamphlet Why Women Desire the Franchise; it was revised and reissued through to the end of the century.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
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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...
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Bussy
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...
politics Jessie Boucherett
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...
politics Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
BLSB took great satisfaction in the first meeting of the Kensington Society in London, which she had formed, with other feminists, to facilitate political and social activism.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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politics Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
The Kensington Society adopted a resolution supporting female suffrage.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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politics Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
A new London National Society for Women's Suffrage was formed, following the disbanding of BLSB 's provisional committee the previous month.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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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 .
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 Helen Blackburn
HB served as secretary of the Bristol and West of England Suffrage Society .
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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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
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
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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