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politics | Annie Besant | AB
was elected to the London School Board
(for the poor district of Tower Hamlets) after a campaign for public education. [T]he Common School system is the foundation of true democracy, Hollis, Patricia. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914. Clarendon. 112 Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 215-16 |
politics | Annie Besant | The London School Board implemented a fair wages clause for the award of contracts, as a result of pressure from Labour
members led by Annie Besant
. Hollis, Patricia. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914. Clarendon. 113 |
politics | Emily Davies | ED
was elected to the London School Board
as a member for Greenwich. Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable. 120 |
politics | Emily Faithfull | EF
reluctantly declined to stand for the London School Board
, following the resignation of T. H. Huxley
, because of her commitments to other activities. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 284 |
politics | Maria Grey | MG
stood for election to the London School Board
as representative for Chelsea, but failed to be elected. Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood. 97 |
politics | Henrietta Müller | HM
was elected to the London School Board
in a landslide, topping the poll with 19,000 votes. She was the third woman on the board; this was the month after Emily Davies
and Elizabeth Garrett |
Author summary | Henrietta Müller | Henrietta Müller
was a prominent activist for women's rights in the late-nineteenth century, who used her talents in the service of public reform. Best known for her radical opposition to taxation without representation, she became... |
politics | Henrietta Müller | In 1878, she took her first official foray into politics when she stood for election to the London School Board
in the Lambeth division. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Henrietta Müller | During and after her time with the London School Board
, HM
was also a member of the National Vigilance Association
or NVA and the Personal Rights Association
or PRA, which both campaigned against the... |
Occupation | Henrietta Müller | HM
's activities as a member of the London School Board
, as member and office-holder of the National Society for Women's Suffrage
and other organizations, and as a campaigner for better treatment for prostitutes... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Henrietta Müller | In an interview printed in The Woman's Herald, Henrietta Müller
recalled that she began speaking a great deal on all sorts of subjects in public at the time of her election to the London School Board |
Textual Production | Henrietta Müller | Müller
wrote this article wearing the hat of a member of the London School Board
. She arrived in Florence furnished with [a] letter of introduction and the intention of reporting her findings when back... |
Textual Features | Henrietta Müller | The article describes the strengths and weaknesses of the schools in Florence in comparison to those of the London School Board
district. HM
praises the simplicity of the Florentine system in contrast to the vastness... |
Occupation | Edith J. Simcox | As a radicalist member of the London School Board
, EJS
fought for the provision of high-quality, compulsory, secular education to all children. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press. 31 |
Occupation | Helen Taylor | HT
represented the Southwark Radical Association
as a member of the London School Board
. The Irish vote was crucial to her election. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Smith, Janet. “Helen Taylor’s Anti-imperial Feminism: Ireland and the Land League question”. Women’s History, Vol. 2 , No. 4, pp. 19-24. 23 |
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