Fawcett Society

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...

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...

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.

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...

HT addressed the National Society for Women's Suffrage at the Hanover Square Rooms, London.

The Kensington Society adopted a resolution supporting female suffrage.

HT addressed the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage .

A new London National Society for Women's Suffrage was formed, following the disbanding of BLSB 's provisional committee the previous month.

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. As Philippa Levine puts it in the Oxford...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ).