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.
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, 2002.
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politics
Marie Belloc Lowndes
The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith
's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country...
politics
Edith Lyttelton
These women's pay, said the letter, was worse than the sweated wages universally condemned in pre-war days.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(15 February 1921): 6
Later that year, EL
was also numbered among the women who tried to help...
politics
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
The magistrate sentenced eleven women (ten arrested outside parliament and one, Sylvia Pankhurst
, arrested at the court) to two months in Holloway Prison's second division (which at this time held convicted criminals, while...
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...
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...
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...
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.
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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...
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...
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...
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
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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
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...
