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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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...
Occupation Eva Gore-Booth
At the Settlement in Manchester, EGB supervised a young womens' theatre group and a poetry circle, and participated in a women's debating society called The Fawcett. The group was named after Millicent Garrett Fawcett
politics Eva Gore-Booth
EGB and Esther Roper again offered some support to Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney after their landmark protest at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on 13 October 1905. But in 1906, they and other...
Textual Production Eva Gore-Booth
Other contributors included Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst , and Constance Smedley .
Literary responses Mary Gawthorpe
The paper was highly controversial from its inception. Not only anti-suffragists and anti-feminists, but also sexual conservatives like Maude Royden and Millicent Garrett Fawcett disliked it. But a suffragist wrote to MG from the USA...
politics Kate Parry Frye
She found the occasion amusing and exhilarating; she rushed around and flirted with men; but she continued her account: But I am in earnest. I really do feel a great belief in the need of...
Friends, Associates Kate Parry Frye
KPF met Millicent Garrett Fawcett in 1896.
Frye, Kate Parry. “Introduction”. Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary, edited by Elizabeth Crawford, Francis Boutle Publishers, pp. 9-34.
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Her diary mentions meeting briefly many leaders in the suffrage campaign. Her fellow activists and sympathizers included: sisters Alexandra and Gladys Wright ; Sanitary Inspector and fellow...
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...
Residence Isabella Ormston Ford
When IOF and her sister Emily decided to move from the large house when their advanced age made it too much to manage, their friend Millicent Garrett Fawcett wrote that to many of us Adel...
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...
politics Isabella Ormston Ford
IOF , whose anti-militarism was in her blood,
Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell.
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felt strongly that the woman's movement should denounce the war and decline any co-operation with the government, even for relief work. She believed that peace propaganda...
Publishing Isabella Ormston Ford
On 23 April 1892 IOF contributed an article entitled Women and the Labour Party to a special series for the Leeds Times on Social and Political Questions by Representative English Women. Other notable contributors...
Friends, Associates Emily Faithfull
EF 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
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...
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...

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