Lydia Becker

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LB first established herself in the mid nineteenth century as a popularizer of scientific knowledge and a proponent of women's scientific education. She is best known for her work on the Women's Suffrage Journal, the major organ of the suffrage movement in the 1870s and 1880s; she also contributed papers and essays to the cause through other outlets.
  • BirthName: Lydia Ernestine Becker
    Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970.
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Painting of Lydia Becker by Elizabeth Sarah Guinness. Becker is wearing a black dress with white lace collar and a bunch of red flowers. She has a pendant hanging on a black strip, and wire-framed glasses. Her hair is parted in the middle and scraped back in a bun. Girton College, Cambridge.

Milestones

24 February 1827

LB was born in Cooper Street, Manchester.
Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970.
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1864

LB published Botany for Novices under the initials L. E. B.
Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970.
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Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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18 July 1890

LB died of diphtheria in Geneva.
Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Biography

Birth

24 February 1827

LB was born in Cooper Street, Manchester.
Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970.
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