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Health | Josephine Butler | At this time JB
's health continued to deteriorate. Her biographer notes that she had trouble both with her lungs and her heart. Butler, Arthur Stanley George. Portrait of Josephine Butler. Faber and Faber. 53 |
Occupation | Isa Craig | IC
worked with Elizabeth Garrett
, and Lady Stanley of Alderley
towards establishing the Ladies' National Association for the Diffusion of Sanitary Knowledge
. Historian Perry Williams
cites the founding date of the Association as 1857. Williams, Perry. “The Laws of Health: Women, Medicine and Sanitary Reform, 1850-1890”. Science and Sensibility: Gender and Scientific Enquiry, 1780-1945, edited by Marina Benjamin, Basil Blackwell, pp. 60-88. 60 McCrone, Kathleen E. “The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and the Advancement of Victorian Women”. Atlantis, Vol. 8 , No. 1, pp. 44-66. 48 Goldman, Lawrence. Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association 1857-1886. Cambridge University Press. 121 |
politics | Constance Naden | CN
entered energetically into both philosophical and philanthropic circles in London, working for many causes, particularly those involving women's health and political emancipation. She was affiliated with the Indian National Association
, working for the... |
politics | Lydia Becker | Other women who served in this position were Elizabeth Garrett
and Emily Davies
in London, and Flora Stevenson
in Edinburgh. LB
was re-elected seven consecutive times. The passage of the 1870 Education Act had created... |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
's name became in time so identified with the suffrage struggle that a story arose depicting her sister Elizabeth
and Emily Davies
entrusting the issue of suffrage to her when she was a little... |
politics | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Although BRP
fought ardently for female empowerment, she was not as vocal in her opinions as many of her contemporaries, including Barbara Leigh Smith, Emily Davies
, and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
. She was firm... |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | BLSB
attended a meeting at Elizabeth Garrett
's home to form a new provisional suffrage committee. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 161 |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
was a member of the first Women's Suffrage Committee
, formed in July 1867 after John Stuart Mill proposed his suffrage amendment in parliament. She was the youngest woman at the initial gathering. At... |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | BLSB
and other Langham feminists such as Jessie Boucherett
and Emily Davies
formed the society for the discussion of political and social issues. The first meeting was held at the home of Charlotte Manning
... |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | The organisation was formed by consolidating all the local societies working for Women's Suffrage. By 1907, however, MGF
turned definitively against the policy of direct action, which had become linked especially with the name of... |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Isa Craig
, Emily Davies
, Bessie Parkes
, Jessie Boucherett
, and Elizabeth Garrett
were members of the committee. Later on Clementia Taylor
joined it too. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 154-5 |
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... |
politics | Frances Power Cobbe | Even some of her own supporters blamed FPC
's tactics—which included plastering London with disturbingly graphic pictures—for alienating public opinion. She had earlier warned her sister Society members in an address not to rely on... |
politics | Sophia Jex-Blake | She aimed to establish credibility for a female medical college by gathering an impressive group of physicians. They included the editor of the British Medical Journal, Ernest Hart
, Thomas Henry Huxley
, Dr... |
politics | Sophia Jex-Blake | The school was located at 30 Henrietta Street, Brunswick Square. It opened with fourteen students (one of them Jex-Blake herself) on 12 October. Thirteen people contributed £1,000 each towards the organization. Students had to... |
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