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.
The magistrate sentenced eleven women (ten arrested outside parliament and one, Sylvia Pankhurst
, arrested at the court) to two months in Holloway Prison's second division (which at this time held convicted criminals, while...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
politics
Eleanor Rathbone
Like her patriotic colleagues Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, Barbara Bodichon
, and Ray Strachey
, ER
was a strong believer in women's fundamental responsibilities as citizens, in their commitment to improving the state despite misogynistic...
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...
politics
Elizabeth Robins
While researching her suffrage play, Votes for Women!, ER
became an active member of the suffrage movement. In July 1906 she began attending meetings of the Women's Social and Political Union
, and her...
politics
F. Mabel Robinson
FMR
became deeply interested in political debates and struggles around the issue of home rule for Ireland, and went so far as to carry secret messages back and forth between England and Ireland. This...
politics
Maude Royden
As a life-long pacifist and anti-war activist, MR
left the NUWSS on 18 February 1915, when its president, Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, threw the society's support behind the war effort.
“The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989.
121, 125
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...
Friends, Associates
Evelyn Sharp
Others with whom she shared this or that memorable experience were the Meynells (Wilfrid
, Alice
, and Viola
), Clarence Rook
and his wife, and Henry W. Nevinson
, whom she eventually married...
Textual Features
George Bernard Shaw
Mrs Warren's daughter Vivie Warren, a classic New Woman character, is based in part on Millicent Garrett Fawcett
's daughter Phillipa
, who had recently placed first in mathematics at Newnham College
. Her mother's...
Friends, Associates
Emily Spender
Through her work on the suffrage movement ES
came to know Millicent Garrett Fawcett
.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Here MS
writes grippingly of her own life, and illuminatingly about myriad subjects of public or cultural interest: the lives, customs, and deaths of newspapers, the conspiracy of silence about sex which had not dissipated...
Textual Production
Ray Strachey
RS
published Millicent Garrett Fawcett, a biography of a suffrage leader she admired and with whom she had worked closely.
O’Malley, Ida. “Dame Millicent Fawcett”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1533, 18 June 1931, p. 477.
477
Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books, 1980.
274
Chapman, Wayne K., and Janet M. Manson, editors. Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Peace, Politics, and Education. Pace University Press, 1998.
