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.
She was recruited for the suffrage movement by Annie Kenney
and Tessa Billington Greig
, and soon became one of its leaders, along with Millicent Fawcett
and Emmeline Pankhurst
. Of her appointment with the...
politics
Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
This prompted Lady Rhondda to call the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act a leaky saucepan.
qtd. in
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
87
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
called this decision simply scandalous.
qtd. in
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
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became a member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
(established by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
in 1897) around 1910, on moving to Tunbridge Wells, where she found a strong Suffrage party.
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable, 1916.
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...
politics
Lydia Becker
A majority of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage
voted to affiliate with non-suffrage women's organizations. Dissidents, including LB
and Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, walked out.
Purvis, June. Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography. Routledge, 2002.
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politics
Marie Belloc Lowndes
The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith
's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country...
politics
Edith Lyttelton
These women's pay, said the letter, was worse than the sweated wages universally condemned in pre-war days.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(15 February 1921): 6
Later that year, EL
was also numbered among the women who tried to help...
politics
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
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...
Publishing
Isabella Ormston Ford
On 23 April 1892 IOF
contributed an article entitled Women and the Labour Party to a special series for the Leeds Times on Social and Political Questions by Representative English Women. Other notable contributors...
Reception
Annie Besant
The publication of the pamphlet resulted in obscenity charges, hardly a surprise since publisher and bookseller Charles Watts
had pled guilty to obscenity the previous winter for selling copies of the same text.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2026, 2 vols.
When IOF
and her sister Emily decided to move from the large house when their advanced age made it too much to manage, their friend Millicent Garrett Fawcett
wrote that to many of us Adel...
