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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Kate Parry Frye | KPF
met Millicent Garrett Fawcett
in 1896. qtd. in Frye, Kate Parry. “Introduction”. Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary, edited by Elizabeth Crawford, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2013, pp. 9-34. 27 |
| Friends, Associates | Emily Spender | Through her work on the suffrage movement ES
came to know Millicent Garrett Fawcett
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Literary responses | Mary Wollstonecraft | MW
's posthumous vilification was followed by a long period during which her name was considered barely fit to be mentioned. Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
borrowed her title The Wrongs of Woman in 1843; Maria Jane Jewsbury |
| Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | The Appeal produced energetic controversy. Millicent Fawcett
and Margaret Mary Dilke
(as Mrs. Ashton Dilke) issued the first of many replies in the Nineteenth Century the following month, and also in July a Battle... |
| Literary responses | Eleanor Rathbone | The campaign for family allowances would take many years to succeed in Britain, and this early text (like others) was met with some resistance from within as well as beyond feminist circles. The Englishwoman reviewer... |
| Literary responses | Lucas Malet | Thomas Hardy
told LM
after reading this novel that she was one of the few authors of the other sex who are not afraid of logical consequences. qtd. in “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 153 |
| Literary responses | Dora Marsden | The close friendship of these two was near its end. Letters on The Freewoman from Mary Augusta (Mrs Humphry) Ward
and Agnes Maude Royden
, a prominent member of the NUWSS
, were printed in... |
| 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... |
| Occupation | Maude Royden | In 1915 she resigned from the society, which had its source in the merging in 1887 of seventeen organizations devoted to campaigning for women's emancipation. Lydia Becker
, then Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, had been... |
| Occupation | Inez Bensusan | Organisers chose to present two feminist plays by men, Woman on Her Own by Eugène Brieux
, translated by Charlotte Shaw
(Bernard Shaw
's wife), and A Gauntlet by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
. Hirshfield, Claire. “The Woman’s Theatre in England: 1913-1918”. Theatre History Studies, Vol. 15 , June 1995, pp. 123-37. 125-6 |
| 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 | Virginia Woolf | VW
appeared with Ethel Smyth
on the platform of the London and National Society for Women's Service
(LNSWS, later renamed the Fawcett Society
in honour of Millicent Garrett Fawcett
). Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 598 |
| 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... |
Timeline
27 July 1911: The Women's Franchise, which featured contributions...
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27 July 1911
The Women's Franchise, which featured contributions from major societies within the suffrage movement and from individuals, ceased publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
24
7 November 1911: The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry...
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7 November 1911
The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith
, told members of the People's Suffrage Federation
that his Liberal government would bring forward, next session, a Manhood Suffrage Bill or Reform Bill.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
318-19
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
116-17, 171
15-21 June 1913: The Congress of the International Women's...
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15-21 June 1913
The Congress of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance
was held at Budapest in Hungary.
Hannam, June et al. International Encyclopedia of Women’s Suffrage. ABC-CLIO, 2000.
“Papers of Charlotte Despard”. AIM25: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
26 July 1913: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
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26 July 1913
The National Union of Women's Suffrage SocietiesWomen's Pilgrimage culminated in London with a meeting in Hyde Park.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
199
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
145-7
Early August 1914: In response to the support for Britain's...
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Early August 1914
In response to the support for Britain's war effort pledged by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
and other National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Executive Committee members, several leading members of the Union resigned to form the...
August 1915: The Young Woman, a monthly, ended publication...
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August 1915
The Young Woman, a monthly, ended publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
17
August 1916: Millicent Garrett Fawcett arranged a meeting...
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August 1916
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
arranged a meeting between suffragists and members of parliament which resulted in the election of MPs of all parties to the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform
.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
169
Late November 1916: The Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform,...
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Late November 1916
The Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform
, an all-party parliamentary group formed on an initiative of Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, turned in a report which became the basis of the Act of 6 February 1918...
After 6 February 1918: Sir Hubert Parry wrote his musical setting...
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After 6 February 1918
Sir Hubert Parry
wrote his musical setting for William Blake
's Jerusalem to celebrate women's victory in the suffrage struggle: this fact is not (unlike the music, which is now as famous as the poem)...
January 1921: The Englishwoman, a monthly forum for serious...
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January 1921
The Englishwoman, a monthly forum for serious feminist discussion, ceased publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
28
6 July 1928: Four days after the Representation of the...
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6 July 1928
Four days after the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act received the royal assent, a celebratory breakfast was held at the Hotel Cecil in London.
“July 6, 1928, Celebrating full women’s suffrage”. Guardian Weekly, 6 July 2007, p. 20.
20
15, 17 June 2011: The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) released...
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15, 17 June 2011
The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
released a digitized version of documents, photos, banners, and personal mementoes from the struggle of British women for suffrage, housed at the Women's Library
and the British parliamentary
archives.
Doherty, Teresa. Emails to the Women’s History Network. 15 June 2011.
Texts
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