Fawcett Society

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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 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.
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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 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.
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FPC was involved in the women's suffrage campaign from its inception in 1866...
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 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. Source Book Press.
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politics Lydia Becker
LB brought to her suffrage activism a complete mastery
Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Source Book Press.
188
of Parliamentary procedure, acting as the official Parliamentary agent of the National Societies for Women's Suffrage .
Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Source Book Press.
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.
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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 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 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.
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Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press.
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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.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
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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.
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.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
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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.

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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