Helsinger, Elizabeth K. et al. The Woman Question. Garland, 1983.
1: 14
Caroline Ashurst Biggs
Standard Name: Biggs, Caroline Ashurst
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Marion Reid | Despite the restrictions placed on Americans at the Convention, it is likely that MR
met there Lucretia Mott
and Lydia Child
. McFadden, Margaret. Golden Cables of Sympathy. University of Kentucky Press, 1999. 20 |
| Literary responses | Marion Reid | Scholar Margaret McFadden
notes that this work was tremendously successful, particularly in the United States, where it went through five editions between 1847 and 1852. The 1847 edition and all ensuing versions were printed... |
| politics | Helen Blackburn | Frances Balfour
describes HB
as the last of three early workers for the Suffrage, Miss Lydia Becker
, and Miss Caroline Ashurst Biggs
. Balfour, Frances. Ne obliviscaris. Hodder and Stoughton, 1930, 2 vols. II: 131 |
| politics | Jessie Boucherett | JB
's associates in maintaining the original committee's name and agenda included Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, Frances Power Cobbe
, Lydia Becker
, Helen Blackburn
, and Caroline Ashurst Biggs
. Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson, 1987. 64, 66 Historian Philippa Levine |
| politics | Marion Reid | Caroline Ashurst Biggs
recalled MR
as one of the founders of the feminist movement. After their first meeting she wrote that [i]t was very pleasant to see how interested and fresh she was in all... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Helen Blackburn | HB
bequeathed her library to Girton College
, Cambridge, in memory of Lydia Becker
and Caroline Ashurst Biggs
. The collection was presented to the library in a mahogany bookcase which she designed herself... |
Timeline
January 1866: The Englishwoman's Review began publication...
Building item
January 1866
The Englishwoman's Review began publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
3
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.
118-19
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
434
1881: The Women Guardians Society was founded....
National or international item
1881
The Women Guardians Society
was founded.
Hollis, Patricia. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914. Clarendon, 1987.
231, 234
1886: Annie Leigh Browne, Caroline Biggs and others...
National or international item
1886
Annie Leigh Browne
, Caroline Biggs
and others formed the Local Electors Association
to support a woman candidate for a vestry position.
Hollis, Patricia. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914. Clarendon, 1987.
317-18
July 1910: The Englishwoman's Review ended publication...
Building item
July 1910
The Englishwoman's Review ended publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
3
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.
under Jessie Boucherett
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
434
Texts
Boucherett, Jessie et al., editors. Englishwoman’s Review. Williams and Norgate, 41 vols.