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 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.
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Literary responses Mary Wollstonecraft
MW 's posthumous vilification was followed by a long period during which her name was considered barely fit to be mentioned. Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna borrowed her title The Wrongs of Woman in 1843; Maria Jane Jewsbury
politics Beatrice Webb
BW said that she disbelieved in the validity of any abstract rights, and believed only in the reciprocal obligations between the individual and society. She recanted on 2 November 1906 in a letter of...
politics Mary Augusta Ward
In a public debate over suffrage at the Passmore Edwards Settlement in London, Millicent Garrett Fawcett defeated MAW (by 235 votes to 74).
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
302-3,416
politics Mary Augusta Ward
In her autobiography of 1918 MAW characterised the group with whom she worked as not interested in suffrage. She describes, however, the atmosphere of sympathy and admiration
Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers.
153
surrounding Millicent Garrett Fawcett when she came...
Literary responses Mary Augusta Ward
The Appeal produced energetic controversy. Millicent Fawcett and Margaret Mary Dilke (as Mrs. Ashton Dilke) issued the first of many replies in the Nineteenth Century the following month, and also in July a Battle...
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...
politics Katharine Tynan
KT became a member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (established by Millicent Garrett Fawcett in 1897) around 1910, on moving to Tunbridge Wells, where she found a strong Suffrage party.
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable.
380
Friends, Associates Helen Taylor
HT moved in political and social circles that included Elizabeth Garrett Anderson , Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Louisa Garrett Anderson , Emily Davies , Elizabeth Wolstenholme , Frances Mary Buss , Dorothea Beale , and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon .
Kent, Susan Kingsley. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914. Princeton University Press.
186
Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, p. vii - xxxv; various pages.
xxvii
Textual Production Ray Strachey
RS published Millicent Garrett Fawcett, a biography of a suffrage leader she admired and with whom she had worked closely.
O’Malley, Ida. “Dame Millicent Fawcett”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1533, p. 477.
477
Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books.
274
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
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.
768
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
politics Ray Strachey
Her initial interest in suffrage grew from her association with Lady Strachey and Philippa Strachey , both suffragists and her future in-laws. Ray worked for the nonmilitant constitutionalist Millicent Fawcett , and thought the militant...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ray Strachey
This pays warm tribute to the work of Millicent Fawcett .
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ray Strachey
The book starts with an account of Mary Wollstonecraft 's work, and proceeds decade by decade, citing Florence Nightingale , Josephine Butler , John Stuart Mill , Sophia Jex-Blake , and many others. Its heroine...
Textual Features Mary Stott
Here MS writes grippingly of her own life, and illuminatingly about myriad subjects of public or cultural interest: the lives, customs, and deaths of newspapers, the conspiracy of silence about sex which had not dissipated...

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.