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.

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Connections Author name Sort ascending Excerpt
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
politics Laura Ormiston Chant
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
Friends, Associates Josephine Butler
JB maintained a close friendship with Millicent Garrett Fawcett until the end of her life.
Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists. Oxford University Press.
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Reception Josephine Butler
In December 1927, as the centenary of JB 's birth approached, the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene published Dame Millicent Fawcett and E. M. Turner 's Josephine Butler: Her Work and Principles, and Their...
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Bussy
DB 's mother, Jane Maria (Grant), Lady Strachey , was born on 13 March 1840 aboard an East India Company ship off the Cape of Good Hope. Her parents were Henrietta Chichele (of an...
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Bussy
Dorothy's immediate family was large and vibrant: she had nine surviving siblings, most of whom distinguished themselves in the public realm. Her sister Philippa (Pippa) Strachey (1872-1968) was a longtime suffragist who organized the first...
politics Jessie Boucherett
JB 's associates in maintaining the original committee's name and agenda included Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Frances Power Cobbe , Lydia Becker , Helen Blackburn , and Caroline Ashurst Biggs .
Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson.
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Historian Philippa Levine
politics Helen Blackburn
She was a committee member of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women , an organization (founded in 1859) that sought to train women and encourage the provision of job opportunities for them. Other...
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.
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Occupation Inez Bensusan
Organisers chose to present two feminist plays by men, Woman on Her Own by Eugène Brieux , translated by Charlotte Shaw (Bernard Shaw 's wife), and A Gauntlet by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson .
Hirshfield, Claire. “The Woman’s Theatre in England: 1913-1918”. Theatre History Studies, Vol.
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, pp. 123-37.
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politics Stella Benson
After the First World War broke out in August 1914, SB sided with Flora Annie Steel in a Women Writers' Suffrage League dispute over supporting the war. Benson and Steel believed in supporting the war...
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.
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Textual Production Lydia Becker
LB 's papers at Manchester Central Library have been published on film by Adam Matthew in 1994, with those of Margaret Ashton , as the first part of Women's Suffrage Collection. The second part...

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