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.
RS
published The Cause: A Short History of the Women's Movement in Great Britain, dedicated to Millicent Fawcett
, whose life-story was part of its subject.
O’Malley, Ida. “The Women’s Movement”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1395, p. 768.
768
Chapman, Wayne K., and Janet M. Manson, editors. Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Peace, Politics, and Education. Pace University Press.
257
politics
Ray Strachey
Her initial interest in suffrage grew from her association with Lady Strachey
and Philippa Strachey
, both suffragists and her future in-laws. Ray worked for the nonmilitant constitutionalist Millicent Fawcett
, and thought the militant...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Ray Strachey
This pays warm tribute to the work of Millicent Fawcett
.
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
politics
Katharine Tynan
KT
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.
380
Family and Intimate relationships
Linda Villari
LV
's father, James White
, was a silk merchant during her childhood and adolescence.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.
His career forced him to move to China in 1841, and his family followed shortly afterwards without the five- or...
politics
Mary Augusta Ward
In a public debate over suffrage at the Passmore Edwards Settlement
in London, Millicent Garrett Fawcett
defeated MAW
(by 235 votes to 74).
In her autobiography of 1918 MAW
characterised the group with whom she worked as not interested in suffrage. She describes, however, the atmosphere of sympathy and admiration
Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers.
153
surrounding Millicent Garrett Fawcett
when she came...
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...
politics
Beatrice Webb
BW
said that she disbelieved in the validity of any abstract rights, and believed only in the reciprocal obligations between the individual and society. She recanted on 2 November 1906 in a letter of...
Literary responses
Mary Wollstonecraft
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
