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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 | 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 | 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. 598 |
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. 2: 526 |
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. 59 |
politics | Lydia Becker | LB
brought to her suffrage activism a complete mastery Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Source Book Press. 188 Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Source Book Press. 188, 174 |
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. 347-8 |
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. 59 Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press. 2-3 |
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. 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. |
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. 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. |
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