Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Fawcett Society
Connections
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politics | Helen Blackburn | HB
served as secretary of the Bristol and West of England Suffrage Society
. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 26 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | Its members included Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy
, Jane Cobden
, William Lloyd Garrison
, Josephine Butler
, and Mrs P. A. (Clementia) Taylor
(convenor of the first Women's Suffrage Committee
formed in London), among others. |
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 | Mary Stott | MS
served as Chairperson of the Fawcett Society
from 1980 to 1982 and was one of its original trustees. In 1981 she joined the Social Democratic Party, or SDP
, founded by breakaway members of... |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
was acutely aware of the potential represented by members of parliament, as is shown in her initiative in founding the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform
in 1916, to bring together MPs who were prepared... |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | BLSB
took great satisfaction in the first meeting of the Kensington Society
in London, which she had formed, with other feminists, to facilitate political and social activism. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 151 |
politics | Kate Parry Frye | She found the occasion amusing and exhilarating; she rushed around and flirted with men; but she continued her account: But I am in earnest. I really do feel a great belief in the need of... |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | The Kensington Society
adopted a resolution supporting female suffrage. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 153 |
politics | Helen Taylor | HT
addressed the National Society for Women's Suffrage
at the Hanover Square Rooms, London. Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, p. vii - xxxv; various pages. 279n1 |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | A new London National Society for Women's Suffrage
was formed, following the disbanding of BLSB
's provisional committee the previous month. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 165 |
politics | Helen Taylor | HT
addressed the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage
. Kent, Susan Kingsley. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914. Princeton University Press. 192 |
politics | Helen Taylor | HT
's radical socialist principles were evident in her work for educational and land reform, as well as in her effort in 1885 to stand for parliament. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
politics | Eva Gore-Booth | EGB
and Esther Roper
again offered some support to Christabel Pankhurst
and Annie Kenney
after their landmark protest at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on 13 October 1905. But in 1906, they and other... |
politics | Augusta Webster | Once she had established her reputation as a writer, AW
put her pen and her considerable speaking and practical skills to work for women and for the national education system. She advocated improved education and... |
politics | Jessie Boucherett | In 1888, the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage
(a group whose name and composition had already undergone changes) separated into two entities. JB
was a part of the group which retained... |
Timeline
After August 1914: The London and National Society for Women's...
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After August 1914
The London and National Society for Women's Suffrage
changed its name to the London Society for Women's Service
shortly after the start of the First World War.
31 January 1926: The Women's Service Library, later known...
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31 January 1926
The Women's Service Library
, later known as the Fawcett Library
, and presently known as the Women's Library
, was established.
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