Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
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Standard Name: Fawcett, Millicent Garrett
Birth Name: Millicent Garrett
Married Name: Millicent Fawcett
Indexed Name: Mrs Henry Fawcett
MGF
was a very effective political writer. Early in her career, she was well regarded for her works on political economy, which included three successful books and numerous articles and reviews for periodicals including Macmillan's Magazine, the Fortnightly, and the Athenæum. Her writings and speeches on higher education for women were very influential. She wrote two novels; the first was a success, but second has been lost. Later, she became primarily known for her activism and considerable body of works (books, essays, lectures, and speeches) dealing with issues in the women's movement, particularly with women's suffrage.
In addition to her other political activities, Chant was heavily involved in the activities of the National Vigilance Association
. She edited its journal, the Vigilance Record, and took a leading role (alongside Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Hirshfield, Claire. “The Woman’s Theatre in England: 1913-1918”. Theatre History Studies, Vol.
15
, pp. 123-37.
125-6
All...
Occupation
Maude Royden
In 1915 she resigned from the society, which had its source in the merging in 1887 of seventeen organizations devoted to campaigning for women's emancipation. Lydia Becker
, then Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, had been...
Occupation
Eva Gore-Booth
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
Literary responses
Eleanor Rathbone
The campaign for family allowances would take many years to succeed in Britain, and this early text (like others) was met with some resistance from within as well as beyond feminist circles. The Englishwoman reviewer...
Literary responses
Lucas Malet
Thomas Hardy
told LM
after reading this novel that she was one of the few authors of the other sex who are not afraid of logical consequences.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
153
He also said that the wages of...
Literary responses
Mary Augusta Ward
The Appeal produced energetic controversy. Millicent Fawcett
and Margaret Mary Dilke
(as Mrs. Ashton Dilke) issued the first of many replies in the Nineteenth Century the following month, and also in July a Battle...
MW
's posthumous vilification was followed by a long period during which her name was considered barely fit to be mentioned. Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
borrowed her title The Wrongs of Woman in 1843; Maria Jane Jewsbury
Literary responses
Mary Gawthorpe
The paper was highly controversial from its inception. Not only anti-suffragists and anti-feminists, but also sexual conservatives like Maude Royden
and Millicent Garrett Fawcett
disliked it. But a suffragist wrote to MG
from the USA...
EF
suffered in various ways as a result of the trial. The sense that she had prevaricated, at the very least, alienated many of her associates on The English Woman's Journal, including Emily Davies
Friends, Associates
Amy Levy
She saw a good deal of Olive Schreiner
, who called her the most interesting girl she had met in England,
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
179
and also took her on two trips outside London at the very end...
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
Friends, Associates
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Edmund Garrett (a cousin of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
and Millicent Garrett Fawcett
) was the first young Englishman whom Marie Belloc had ever got to know well; as a French girl, she was equally strange...
