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.
Head-and-shoulders photograph of Millicent Garrett Fawcett. She is looking to the left with her hair braided and coiled around her head, wearing a frilled collar and a necklace of large beads.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Lydia Becker
A majority of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage voted to affiliate with non-suffrage women's organizations. Dissidents, including LB and Millicent Garrett Fawcett , walked out.
Purvis, June. Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography. Routledge.
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Textual Production Lydia Becker
LB 's papers at Manchester Central Library have been published on film by Adam Matthew in 1994, with those of Margaret Ashton , as the first part of Women's Suffrage Collection. The second part...
politics Stella Benson
After the First World War broke out in August 1914, SB sided with Flora Annie Steel in a Women Writers' Suffrage League dispute over supporting the war. Benson and Steel believed in supporting the war...
Occupation Inez Bensusan
Organisers chose to present two feminist plays by men, Woman on Her Own by Eugène Brieux , translated by Charlotte Shaw (Bernard Shaw 's wife), and A Gauntlet by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson .
Hirshfield, Claire. “The Woman’s Theatre in England: 1913-1918”. Theatre History Studies, Vol.
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, pp. 123-37.
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All...
Reception Annie Besant
The publication of the pamphlet resulted in obscenity charges, hardly a surprise since publisher and bookseller Charles Watts had pled guilty to obscenity the previous winter for selling copies of the same text.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
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politics Helen Blackburn
She was a committee member of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women , an organization (founded in 1859) that sought to train women and encourage the provision of job opportunities for them. Other...
politics Jessie Boucherett
JB 's associates in maintaining the original committee's name and agenda included Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Frances Power Cobbe , Lydia Becker , Helen Blackburn , and Caroline Ashurst Biggs .
Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson.
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Historian Philippa Levine
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Bussy
DB 's mother, Jane Maria (Grant), Lady Strachey , was born on 13 March 1840 aboard an East India Company ship off the Cape of Good Hope. Her parents were Henrietta Chichele (of an...
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Bussy
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...
Friends, Associates Josephine Butler
JB maintained a close friendship with Millicent Garrett Fawcett until the end of her life.
Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists. Oxford University Press.
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Reception Josephine Butler
In December 1927, as the centenary of JB 's birth approached, the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene published Dame Millicent Fawcett and E. M. Turner 's Josephine Butler: Her Work and Principles, and Their...
politics Laura Ormiston Chant
In addition to her other political activities, Chant was heavily involved in the activities of the National Vigilance Association . She edited its journal, the Vigilance Record, and took a leading role (alongside Millicent Garrett Fawcett
politics Frances Power Cobbe
FPC was also influential in the passage of the 1882 Married Women's Property Act. Slow to embrace the campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts because she thought it might harm the larger cause, she later...
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
FPC was a friend of Emily Faithfull , Geraldine Jewsbury , and Rosa Bonheur , and she knew Josephine Butler , Augusta Webster , Lady Battersea , Emily Pfeiffer , Anne Thackeray Ritchie , Helen Taylor
politics Charlotte Despard
She was recruited for the suffrage movement by Annie Kenney and Tessa Billington Greig , and soon became one of its leaders, along with Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst . Of her appointment with the...

Timeline

Autumn 1867: The London National Society for Women's Suffrage...

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Autumn 1867

The London National Society for Women's Suffrage was formed under the direction of Frances Power Cobbe , Millicent Garrett Fawcett , and others.

1871: Newnham College for women was founded in...

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1871

Newnham College for women was founded in Cambridge.

August 1874: The National Union of Working Women was founded...

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August 1874

The National Union of Working Women was founded in Bristol.

1881: Henry Fawcett, Postmaster-General and husband...

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1881

Henry Fawcett , Postmaster-General and husband of Millicent Garrett Fawcett , created a new civil service grade of women clerks, opening up government jobs to women previously excluded because of their class.

1888: Two new groups emerged from the National...

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1888

Two new groups emerged from the National Society for Women's Suffrage after internal dissension about permitting affiliations with other organisations: the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage retained its existing name; the...

3 January 1890: The Woman began weekly publication as a moderate...

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3 January 1890

The Woman began weekly publication as a moderate feminist magazine; it then became a fashionable ladies' magazine.

early June 1890: Philippa Fawcett of Newnham College, Cambridge,...

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early June 1890

Philippa Fawcett of Newnham College, Cambridge , was placed above the Senior Wrangler in the university's mathematics results.

September 1890: Rukhmabai, famous for her court case resulting...

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September 1890

Rukhmabai , famous for her court case resulting from her marriage as a child and now in London studying to become a medical doctor, weighed in on the subject of Indian Child Marriages: An Appeal...

October 1892: F. A. Atkins edited the first issue of The...

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October 1892

F. A. Atkins edited the first issue of The Young Woman, a magazine for girls interested in religion, published in London.

February 1895: Grant Allen published his best-selling novel...

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February 1895

Grant Allen published his best-selling novel entitled The Woman Who Did; it was Keynotes Series no. 8.

14 October 1897: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...

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14 October 1897

The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies was established under the leadership of Millicent Garrett Fawcett .

11 December 1906: Millicent Garrett Fawcett gave a banquet...

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11 December 1906

Millicent Garrett Fawcett gave a banquet at the Savoy Hotel in London to celebrate the release from Holloway Prison of suffragists arrested on 23 October.

27 June 1907: The Women's Franchise began weekly publication...

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27 June 1907

The Women's Franchise began weekly publication in London; it featured contributions from major societies within the suffrage movement and from individuals.

31 January 1910: Militant suffragettes called a truce, anticipating...

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31 January 1910

Militant suffragettes called a truce, anticipating H. N. Brailsford 's efforts to organise an all-party parliamentary conciliation committee to promote the settlement of the women's suffrage question.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland.
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9 July 1910: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...

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9 July 1910

The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies sponsored a demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, attended by over 10,000 people, in support of the impending second reading of the Conciliation Bill.

Texts

Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. Easter in Palestine, 1921-1922. T. F. Unwin, 1926.
Fawcett, Henry, and Millicent Garrett Fawcett. Essays and Lectures on Social and Political Subjects. Macmillan, 1872.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. Five Famous French Women. Cassell, 1905.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, and Mary Wollstonecraft. “Introduction”. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, New Edition, T. F. Unwin, 1891.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. Janet Doncaster. Smith, Elder, 1875.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, and Ethel Mary Turner. Josephine Butler. Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, 1927.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. W. H. Allen, 1895.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. Life of the Right Hon. Sir William Molesworth. Macmillan, 1901.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. Political Economy for Beginners. Macmillan, 1870.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. Some Eminent Women of Our Times. Macmillan, 1889.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. Tales in Political Economy. Macmillan, 1874.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. “The Education of women of the middle and upper classes”. Macmillan’s Magazine.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. The Women’s Victory—and After. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1920.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. What I Remember. Fisher Unwin, 1924.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. What I Remember. Hyperion Press, 1976.
Becker, Lydia et al. Women’s Suffrage Collection from Manchester Central Library. Adam Matthew, 1994.
Becker, Lydia et al. Women’s Suffrage Collection from Manchester Central Library: A Listing and Guide to the Microfilm Collection. Adam Matthew, 1995.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, and Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke. Women’s Suffrage in Parliament. National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1898.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. Women’s Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement. T. C. and E. C. Jack, 1912.