Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | BLSB
attended a meeting at Elizabeth Garrett
's home to form a new provisional suffrage committee. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 161 |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
was a member of the first Women's Suffrage Committee
, formed in July 1867 after John Stuart Mill proposed his suffrage amendment in parliament. She was the youngest woman at the initial gathering. At... |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | BLSB
and other Langham feminists such as Jessie Boucherett
and Emily Davies
formed the society for the discussion of political and social issues. The first meeting was held at the home of Charlotte Manning
... |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | The organisation was formed by consolidating all the local societies working for Women's Suffrage. By 1907, however, MGF
turned definitively against the policy of direct action, which had become linked especially with the name of... |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Isa Craig
, Emily Davies
, Bessie Parkes
, Jessie Boucherett
, and Elizabeth Garrett
were members of the committee. Later on Clementia Taylor
joined it too. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 154-5 |
politics | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
was also influential in the passage of the 1882 Married Women's Property Act. Slow to embrace the campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts because she thought it might harm the larger cause, she later... |
Occupation | Isa Craig | IC
worked with Elizabeth Garrett
, and Lady Stanley of Alderley
towards establishing the Ladies' National Association for the Diffusion of Sanitary Knowledge
. Historian Perry Williams
cites the founding date of the Association as 1857. Williams, Perry. “The Laws of Health: Women, Medicine and Sanitary Reform, 1850-1890”. Science and Sensibility: Gender and Scientific Enquiry, 1780-1945, edited by Marina Benjamin, Basil Blackwell, pp. 60-88. 60 McCrone, Kathleen E. “The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and the Advancement of Victorian Women”. Atlantis, Vol. 8 , No. 1, pp. 44-66. 48 Goldman, Lawrence. Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association 1857-1886. Cambridge University Press. 121 |
Health | Josephine Butler | At this time JB
's health continued to deteriorate. Her biographer notes that she had trouble both with her lungs and her heart. Butler, Arthur Stanley George. Portrait of Josephine Butler. Faber and Faber. 53 |
Friends, Associates | Emily Davies | At Gateshead, ED
began life-long friendships with Annie Crow
(later Austin) and Jane Crow
(from 1848), and Elizabeth Garrett
(later Anderson), from 1854. No letters from her to Anderson survive, although a number from Anderson... |
Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Edmund Garrett (a cousin of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
and Millicent Garrett Fawcett
) was the first young Englishman whom Marie Belloc had ever got to know well; as a French girl, she was equally strange... |
Friends, Associates | Constance Naden | CN
was a friend of the two poets who shared the name Michael Field
(who also came from Birmingham) and of the medical doctor Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
(who presumably did not hold against her the... |
Friends, Associates | Louisa May Alcott | LMA
was a friend of, among others, Frances Hodgson Burnett
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, who helped her family manage their financial difficulties, and Henry David Thoreau
, who taught science to her and her... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Edith J. Simcox | Her connection with George Eliot
and her own political activities brought EJS
into friendly association with a number of key social figures including William Morris
, Eliza Orme
, and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
. Fulmer, Constance M. et al. “Preface, Introduction and Editorial Materials”. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot, Garland, pp. xi - xvii, 1. xii Fulmer, Constance M. “A Nineteenth Century ’Womanist’ on Gender Issues: Edith Simcox in her <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Autobiography of a Shirtmaker</span>”;. Nineteenth Century Prose, Vol. 26 , No. 2, pp. 110-26. 115 |
Friends, Associates | Helen Taylor | HT
moved in political and social circles that included Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
, Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, Louisa Garrett Anderson
, Emily Davies
, Elizabeth Wolstenholme
, Frances Mary Buss
, Dorothea Beale
, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
. 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 |
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