Fawcett Society

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
politics	Henrietta Müller	Henrietta Müller 's public engagement with the social and political advancement of women was deeply involved and far reaching. She was committed to a host of feminist organizations, many of which she founded, and which...
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, 1987. 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, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. As Philippa Levine puts it in the Oxford...
politics	Florence Nightingale	In early 1866 FN signed John Stuart Mill 's petition for women's suffrage. She and Mill also exchanged a series of letters on the issue. Although she signed the petition, she thought that married women's...
politics	Frances Power Cobbe	Firmly committed to doing everything in [her] power to protect the property, the persons and the parental rights of women, Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin, 1894, 2 vols. 2: 526 FPC was involved in the women's suffrage campaign from its inception in 1866...
politics	Lydia Becker	LB was appointed Secretary of the Manchester committee for the promotion of the enfranchisement of women, an early local branch of what was soon to become the National Society for Women's Suffrage . Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970. 59
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	Lydia Becker	LB brought to her suffrage activism a complete mastery Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970. 188 of Parliamentary procedure, acting as the official Parliamentary agent of the National Societies for Women's Suffrage . Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970. 188, 174 Helen Blackburn asserts that to members...
politics	Emily Davies	ED joined the Executive Committee of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage . Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927. 347-8
politics	Lydia Becker	In 1874 LB supported a suffrage bill brought in by a Conservative MP, which would have given the vote to unmarried women and widows only (on the basis that a married woman would merely duplicate...
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	Helen Blackburn	HB acted as secretary of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage . Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols. 26
politics	Amelia B. Edwards	She also served as a vice-president of the West of England National Society for Woman's Suffrage . Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols.
politics	Christabel Pankhurst	CP met Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper , founders of the North of England Women's Suffrage Society ; she was their political apprentice for the following three years. Purvis, June. Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography. Routledge, 2002. 59 Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press, 1996. 2-3
politics	Helen Blackburn	HB served as secretary of the Bristol and West of England Suffrage Society . Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols. 26 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Timeline

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.

Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. What I Remember. Hyperion Press, 1976.

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Caine, Barbara. English Feminism, 1780-1980. Oxford University Press, 1997, http://U of G.

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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.

Cadman, Eileen et al. Rolling Our Own: Women as Printers, Publishers and Distributors. Minority Press-Group, 1981.

“The Women’s Library”. London Metropolitan University.

Buhasz, Laszlo. “Notebook: Women’s Library to reopen in London”. The Globe and Mail, 1 Dec. 2001, p. T12.

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