Fawcett Society

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
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	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	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	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, 1985. 151
politics	Virginia Woolf	VW appeared with Ethel Smyth on the platform of the London and National Society for Women's Service (LNSWS, later renamed the Fawcett Society in honour of Millicent Garrett Fawcett ). Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 598
politics	Eva Gore-Booth	The women formed this committee (a break-away group from the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage ) after backing Labour candidate David Shackleton in a by-election. In exchange for the support of EGB ...
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, 1985. 153
politics	Sarah Grand	In an interview in 1896, SG made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand...
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, 1985. 165
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...
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, 1994, p. vii - xxxv; various pages. 279n1
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, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. As Philippa Levine puts it in the Oxford...

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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