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...
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
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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
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...
Author summary
Sophia Jex-Blake
In a society that valued modesty, where women refrained from seeking treatment from male doctors for some medical problems, SJB
saw a need for women doctors. Through extensive conflict, she became the third woman to...
Reception
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
A commemorative blue plaque at Uplands in Aldeburgh commemorates the births of the sisters Millicent and Elizabeth Garrett
Green, Tony. “Letters: Fall of the wild”. The Guardian, 13 June 2013, p. 41.
but a similar plaque at 18 Brookside, Cambridge, names MGF
's husband and merely mentions, unnamed,...
Textual Features
Judith Kazantzis
Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743...
Textual Production
Frances Power Cobbe
Another well-known hymn, written in 1859 and anthologized by A. H. Miles
, begins with the line God draws a cloud over each gleaming morn. Cobbe also wrote verse later in her life, such...