Emily Davies
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Standard Name: Davies, Emily
Birth Name: Sarah Emily Davies
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'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.
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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 |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | BLSB
and other Langham feminists such as Jessie Boucherett
and Emily Davies
formed the society for the discussion of political and social issues. The first meeting was held at the home of Charlotte Manning
... |
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... |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Isa Craig
, Emily Davies
, Bessie Parkes
, Jessie Boucherett
, and Elizabeth Garrett
were members of the committee. Later on Clementia Taylor
joined it too. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 154-5 |
politics | Robert Browning | RB
demonstrated his own progressive commitment to higher education for women by signing Emily Davies
's 1867 Memorial Respecting the Need of a Place of Higher Education for Girls. He also publicly supported anti-vivisection... |
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... |
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. |
politics | Isa Craig | Together with feminist colleagues Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, Bessie Rayner Parkes
, and Emily Davies
, IC
helped publicise John Stuart Mill's
parliamentary nomination. Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus. 216 |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | |
Textual Production | Matilda Hays | Emily Davies
took over in 1862. |
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... |
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... |
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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