Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
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Standard Name: Fawcett, Millicent Garrett
Birth Name: Millicent Garrett
Married Name: Millicent Fawcett
Indexed Name: Mrs Henry Fawcett
MGF
was a very effective political writer. Early in her career, she was well regarded for her works on political economy, which included three successful books and numerous articles and reviews for periodicals including Macmillan's Magazine, the Fortnightly, and the Athenæum. Her writings and speeches on higher education for women were very influential. She wrote two novels; the first was a success, but second has been lost. Later, she became primarily known for her activism and considerable body of works (books, essays, lectures, and speeches) dealing with issues in the women's movement, particularly with women's suffrage.
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suffered in various ways as a result of the trial. The sense that she had prevaricated, at the very least, alienated many of her associates on The English Woman's Journal, including Emily Davies
Friends, Associates
Amy Levy
She saw a good deal of Olive Schreiner
, who called her the most interesting girl she had met in England,
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
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and also took her on two trips outside London at the very end...
Kent, Susan Kingsley. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914. Princeton University Press.
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Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, p. vii - xxxv; various pages.
xxvii
Friends, Associates
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Edmund Garrett (a cousin of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
and Millicent Garrett Fawcett
) was the first young Englishman whom Marie Belloc had ever got to know well; as a French girl, she was equally strange...
Friends, Associates
Isabella Ormston Ford
Through her mother's connection with the women's movement of the mid-Victorian period, IOF
met Millicent Garrett Fawcett
and her sister Agnes Garrett
, with whom Isabella and her sister Bessie became close friends and correspondents...
Dorothy's immediate family was large and vibrant: she had nine surviving siblings, most of whom distinguished themselves in the public realm. Her sister Philippa (Pippa) Strachey
(1872-1968) was a longtime suffragist who organized the first...
Family and Intimate relationships
Isabella Ormston Ford
Emily, born five years ahead of Isabella in 1850, attended the Slade School of Art
in the late 1870s and became a painter well-known in the Leeds community. Like IOF
, she also became a...
Family and Intimate relationships
Linda Villari
LV
's father, James White
, was a silk merchant during her childhood and adolescence.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.
His career forced him to move to China in 1841, and his family followed shortly afterwards without the five- or...
Dedications
Ray Strachey
RS
published The Cause: A Short History of the Women's Movement in Great Britain, dedicated to Millicent Fawcett
, whose life-story was part of its subject.
O’Malley, Ida. “The Women’s Movement”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1395, p. 768.
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Chapman, Wayne K., and Janet M. Manson, editors. Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Peace, Politics, and Education. Pace University Press.
257
Anthologization
Ann Oakley
The many other texts that AO
published during this decade include an Open University
course entitled The Division of Labour by Gender, 1981, and her biographical article on Millicent Garrett Fawcett
for Dale Spender
