Fawcett Society

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Education	Edith Craig	Craig then was tutored privately at Dixton Manor Hall at Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, the home of Mrs Cole's sister, Elizabeth Malleson . Malleson had been an active member of the women's suffrage movement since...
Education	Dora Marsden	Though some of DM 's activities and affiliations are unclear, studying and living in Manchester was a highly formative experience for her. By then the city had established strong ties with the labour and suffrage...
Family and Intimate relationships	Dorothy Bussy	Dorothy's immediate family was large and vibrant: she had nine surviving siblings, most of whom distinguished themselves in the public realm. Her sister Philippa (Pippa) Strachey (1872-1968) was a longtime suffragist who organized the first...
Family and Intimate relationships	Emmeline Pankhurst	Richard Pankhurst was already active in political life and closely interested in the enfranchisement of women. He had a history of involvement with organizations such as the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science...
Family and Intimate relationships	Henrietta Müller	Henrietta's mother, Maria Henrietta Müller , was of English descent, though she appears to have been born, like her children, in Valparaiso. “FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. under Maria Miller (sic) Mrs. Müller was committed, along with both her daughters...
Friends, Associates	Clemence Dane	Toasts were proposed by suffragist Philippa Strachey and by Ethel Watts (chair of the Junior Council of the London and National Society for Women's Service ), the latter of whom hoped that in the future...
Friends, Associates	Ella Hepworth Dixon	EHD also counted among her friends Gertrude Kinnell , constitutional suffragist and Chairman of the Society for Women's Suffrage (elected in August 1914). EHD once remembered how when the Suffragette movement was at its wildest...
Friends, Associates	Eva Gore-Booth	In 1901 future suffrage leader Christabel Pankhurst met Esther Roper at a meeting of the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage (NESWS ). Roper introduced Pankhurst to EGB immediately after this, and the...
Friends, Associates	Virginia Woolf	In her speech to the London and National Society for Women's Service in 1931, VW described Ethel Smyth as of the race of pioneers, of pathmakers. She has gone before and felled trees and blasted...
Occupation	Henrietta Müller	HM 's activities as a member of the London School Board , as member and office-holder of the National Society for Women's Suffrage and other organizations, and as a campaigner for better treatment for prostitutes...
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
Performance of text	Virginia Woolf	VW worked long and hard on the lengthy novel which finally became The Years. Its genesis goes back to her speech of 21 January 1931 at the London and National Society for Women's Service
politics	Helen Taylor	HT addressed the National Society for Women's Suffrage at the Hanover Square Rooms, London. Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, 1994, p. vii - xxxv; various pages. 279n1
politics	Henrietta Müller	Henrietta Müller 's public engagement with the social and political advancement of women was deeply involved and far reaching. She was committed to a host of feminist organizations, many of which she founded, and which...
politics	Helen Taylor	HT addressed the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage . Kent, Susan Kingsley. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914. Princeton University Press, 1987. 192

Timeline

Autumn 1867

The London National Society for Women's Suffrage was formed under the direction of Frances Power Cobbe , Millicent Garrett Fawcett , and others.

Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. What I Remember. Hyperion Press, 1976.

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Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970.

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Kent, Susan Kingsley. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914. Princeton University Press, 1987.

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Smith, Janet. “Helen Taylor’s Anti-imperial Feminism: Ireland and the Land League question”. Women’s History, Vol.

, No. 4, 1 Mar.–31 May 2016, pp. 19-24.