Emily Davies
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Standard Name: Davies, Emily
Birth Name: Sarah Emily Davies
ED
's literary work arose from her deep-seated belief in equal treatment for women. Most of her articles and essays were pragmatic contributions to the late nineteenth-century campaign, of which she was a leader, to improve female education. She positioned herself not as a radical seeking to overthrow the structures of society, but as a member of the establishment seeking reasonable reform.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Una Marson | Through her editorship of the magazine, UM
drew attention to issues such as single motherhood, women struggling on meagre incomes, and unemployment among domestic workers. This is the age of woman: what man has done... |
Occupation | John Stuart Mill | JSM
served as independent MP for Westminster from 1865 to 1868. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press. vii The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press. |
Occupation | John Stuart Mill | In 1866 JSM
presented to the House of Commons
with parliament's first major suffrage petition. The petition, drafted by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, Jessie Boucherett
, and Emily Davies
, and signed by... |
politics | Henrietta Müller | HM
was elected to the London School Board
in a landslide, topping the poll with 19,000 votes. She was the third woman on the board; this was the month after Emily Davies
and Elizabeth Garrett |
Instructor | Henrietta Müller | This was the first year that Girton was located at the village of the same name, just outside Cambridge, instead of further away at Hitchin. While enrolled there, Henrietta Müller
was inspired—in part by Emily Davies |
politics | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Although BRP
fought ardently for female empowerment, she was not as vocal in her opinions as many of her contemporaries, including Barbara Leigh Smith, Emily Davies
, and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
. She was firm... |
Friends, Associates | Bessie Rayner Parkes | In later years she became friendly with hymn-writer Elizabeth Rundle Charles
. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 338 |
Textual Production | Bessie Rayner Parkes | As editor of the new English Woman's Journal from April 1857, BRP
saw the paper as representing the Working Woman, a term that she defined as intended to include all women who are actively... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Among the women present at the meeting was Emily Davies
, who had presented her arguments for female suffrage to John Stuart Mill
when he took the first petition advocating female enfranchisement before Parliament on... |
Occupation | Emily Shirreff | ES
began her term as headmistress of Emily Davies
's Girton College
(at that time known as Hitchin College); she held the position for less than a year. Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood. 140 |
politics | Helen Taylor | 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. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Friends, Associates | Helen Taylor | HT
moved in political and social circles that included Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
, Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, Louisa Garrett Anderson
, Emily Davies
, Elizabeth Wolstenholme
, Frances Mary Buss
, Dorothea Beale
, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
. Kent, Susan Kingsley. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914. Princeton University Press. 186 Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, p. vii - xxxv; various pages. xxvii |
Timeline
9 August 1870: The Education Act established a national...
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9 August 1870
The Education Act established a national elementary education system governed by local school boards, to which women could be elected.
October 1873: Emily Davies and Elizabeth Garrett, the first...
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October 1873
26 June to 5 July 1899: The International Council of Women sponsored...
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26 June to 5 July 1899
The International Council of Women sponsored the International Congress of Women
, a ten-day conference held at Westminster Town Hall in London. Those attending included Susan B. Anthony
, Sidney Webb
, Josephine Butler
19 May 1906: Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, newly-elected...
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19 May 1906
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
, newly-elected Prime Minister, received a deputation of suffragists.
14 December 1918: The post-war general election (sometimes...
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14 December 1918
The post-war general election (sometimes called the coupon election) was the first in which some British women (those over thirty with a property qualification of their own or their husband's) voted.
1926: New statutes at Cambridge University first...
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1926
New statutes at Cambridge University
first permitted women to hold university (as opposed to merely college) teaching posts, to belong to university faculties and sit on faculty boards.
6 July 1928: Four days after the Representation of the...
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6 July 1928
Four days after the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act received the royal assent, a celebratory breakfast was held at the Hotel Cecil in London.
15, 17 June 2011: The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) released...
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15, 17 June 2011
The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
released a digitized version of documents, photos, banners, and personal mementoes from the struggle of British women for suffrage, housed at the Women's Library
and the British parliamentary
archives.
Doherty, Teresa. Emails to the Women’s History Network.
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