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.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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. |
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 | 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... |
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... |
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. 121, 125 |
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 | 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 | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
succeeded Millicent Garrett Fawcett
as President of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship
(NUSEC
)—formerly the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
(NUWSS
)—a post she held for ten years. 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 | 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... |
Textual Features | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | In the undated broadside Why Women Want the Vote, published by the Woman's Press
with the National Women's Social and Political Union
listed as author, OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | The WSPU was militant, unlike the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
, a federation of suffrage societies led by Lydia Becker
and later by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
. Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint. 50n1 |
Textual Production | Emmeline Pankhurst | The other contributors to this important collection were Shaw himself (again pseudonymous) and Mabel Atkinson
, Florence Balgarnie
, Eva Gore-Booth
, Robert F. Cholmeley
, Charlotte Despard
, Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, Keir Hardie |
Textual Features | Ann Oakley | A Note about the Title explains what she means by Jerusalem: a land we aspire to live in, regardless of the fact that we're unlikely to even make it. Oakley, Ann. Telling the Truth about Jerusalem. Basil Blackwell. prelims |
Timeline
27 July 1911: The Women's Franchise, which featured contributions...
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27 July 1911
The Women's Franchise, which featured contributions from major societies within the suffrage movement and from individuals, ceased publication in London.
7 November 1911: The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry...
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7 November 1911
The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith
, told members of the People's Suffrage Federation
that his Liberal government would bring forward, next session, a Manhood Suffrage Bill or Reform Bill.
15-21 June 1913: The Congress of the International Women's...
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15-21 June 1913
The Congress of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance
was held at Budapest in Hungary.
26 July 1913: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
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26 July 1913
The National Union of Women's Suffrage SocietiesWomen's Pilgrimage culminated in London with a meeting in Hyde Park.
Early August 1914: In response to the support for Britain's...
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Early August 1914
In response to the support for Britain's war effort pledged by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
and other National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Executive Committee members, several leading members of the Union resigned to form the...
August 1915: The Young Woman, a monthly, ended publication...
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August 1915
The Young Woman, a monthly, ended publication in London.
August 1916: Millicent Garrett Fawcett arranged a meeting...
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August 1916
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
arranged a meeting between suffragists and members of parliament which resulted in the election of MPs of all parties to the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform
.
Late November 1916: The Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform,...
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Late November 1916
The Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform
, an all-party parliamentary group formed on an initiative of Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, turned in a report which became the basis of the Act of 6 February 1918...
After 6 February 1918: Sir Hubert Parry wrote his musical setting...
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After 6 February 1918
Sir Hubert Parry
wrote his musical setting for William Blake
's Jerusalem to celebrate women's victory in the suffrage struggle: this fact is not (unlike the music, which is now as famous as the poem)...
January 1921: The Englishwoman, a monthly forum for serious...
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January 1921
The Englishwoman, a monthly forum for serious feminist discussion, ceased publication in London.
6 July 1928: Four days after the Representation of the...
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6 July 1928
Four days after the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act received the royal assent, a celebratory breakfast was held at the Hotel Cecil in London.
15, 17 June 2011: The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) released...
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15, 17 June 2011
The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
released a digitized version of documents, photos, banners, and personal mementoes from the struggle of British women for suffrage, housed at the Women's Library
and the British parliamentary
archives.
Doherty, Teresa. Emails to the Women’s History Network.
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