Millicent Garrett
, aged nineteen, married the blind radical MP Henry Fawcett
, aged thirty-four, who was also Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge
.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Henry Fawcett
Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray, 1931.
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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...
MGF
acted as her blind husband
's secretary, which meant familiarizing herself with political and social debate and acquiring a thorough political education.
Weaver, John Reginald Homer, editor. The Dictionary of National Biography, Fourth Supplement, 1922-1930. Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1937.
Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray, 1931.
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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, 1985–2024, 2 vols.
When MGF
spoke at Brighton (in her husband
's constituency), the meeting passed a vote of thanks to him for allowing her to do so.
Oakley, Ann et al. “Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Duty and Determination”. Feminist Theorists, edited by Dale Spender, Reprint, Pantheon Books, 1983, pp. 184-02.
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Textual Production
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
MGF
and her husband
collaborated on a volume of Essays and Lectures on Social and Political Subjects.
Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray, 1931.
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Timeline
1881: Henry Fawcett, Postmaster-General and husband...
Building item
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.
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
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Texts
Fawcett, Henry, and Millicent Garrett Fawcett. Essays and Lectures on Social and Political Subjects. Macmillan, 1872.