Millicent Garrett Fawcett

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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.
  • BirthName: Millicent Garrett
  • Married: Fawcett
  • Indexed: Mrs. Henry Fawcett
    Immediately after her death the Dictionary of National Biography Supplement 1922-1930 regarded her as better known
    Weaver, John Reginald Homer, editor. The Dictionary of National Biography, Fourth Supplement, 1922-1930. Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1937.
    by this name than her own.
    Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray, 1931.
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Head-and-shoulders photograph of Millicent Garrett Fawcett. She is looking to the left with her hair braided and coiled around her head, wearing a frilled collar and a necklace of large beads.

Milestones

11 June 1847

Millicent Garrett (later MGF ) was born at her parents' home, Uplands, at Aldeburgh in Suffolk.
The house is now (2013) a hotel.
Weaver, John Reginald Homer, editor. The Dictionary of National Biography, Fourth Supplement, 1922-1930. Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1937.
Green, Tony. “Letters: Fall of the wild”. The Guardian, 13 June 2013, p. 41.

April 1868

MGF published her first magazine article, The Education of women of the middle and upper classes, in Macmillan's Magazine, discussing lectures for women in Cambridge (the germ of Newnham College ).
Demoor, Marysa. Their Fair Share. Ashgate, 2000.
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Oakley, Ann et al. “Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Duty and Determination”. Feminist Theorists, edited by Dale Spender, Reprint, Pantheon Books, 1983, pp. 184-02.
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Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray, 1931.
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5 August 1929

MGF died at eighty-two of double pneumonia after an illness of only two weeks.
Weaver, John Reginald Homer, editor. The Dictionary of National Biography, Fourth Supplement, 1922-1930. Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1937.
Oakley, Ann et al. “Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Duty and Determination”. Feminist Theorists, edited by Dale Spender, Reprint, Pantheon Books, 1983, pp. 184-02.
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Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray, 1931.
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Biography

Birth and Family

11 June 1847

Millicent Garrett (later MGF ) was born at her parents' home, Uplands, at Aldeburgh in Suffolk.
The house is now (2013) a hotel.
Weaver, John Reginald Homer, editor. The Dictionary of National Biography, Fourth Supplement, 1922-1930. Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1937.
Green, Tony. “Letters: Fall of the wild”. The Guardian, 13 June 2013, p. 41.

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