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Aged twelve in 1858, Millicent Fawcett was sent to London with her sister Elizabeth to attend a private boarding school in Blackheath. Millicent found Louisa Browning who led the school to be a "born teacher" whereas her sister remembered the "stupidity" of the teachers. [11]
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Millicent Garrett was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk in 1846 to a prosperous middle-class family. When she was twelve, Millicent was sent to London, with her sister Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (the first female doctor in the UK) to study at a private boarding school in Blackheath. Being educated in London gave Millicent a keen interest in literature and...
The whole text can be found in Lewis, J. (ed) (1987) Before the Vote was Won: Arguments For and Against Women’s Suffrage, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, pp. 418-424. Women’s Suffragepublished in 1911, Millicent Garrett Fawcett compared the tactics of the NUWSS and the WSPU. Citation: Pettinger, Tejvan. “Biography Millicent Fawcett”, Oxford, www.bi...
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At Cambridge, the couple campaigned for the admission of women to the university, backing Henry Sidgwick’s lectures for women and the foundation of Newnham College. Millicent later refused the opportunity to be mistress of Girton but she became a governor of Bedford College, later part of the University of London.
Percy Harrison Fawcett DSO (18 August 1867 – disappeared 29 May 1925) was a British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist and explorer of South America.
Jul 13, 2007 · Fawcett - or Lieutenant Colonel Fawcett to give him his full title - was born in Torquay in 1867 and went missing in South America in 1925, while on a quest to find the hidden city known as...
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett was a leader for 50 years of the movement for woman suffrage in England. From the beginning of her career she had to struggle against almost unanimous male opposition to political rights for women; from 1905 she also had to overcome public hostility to the militant.
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These lectures served as the precursor of Newnham College which, with Girton, was one of the first two colleges for women affiliated with Cambridge University. Fawcett later reaped great personal satisfaction and political vindication from this early support of higher education.
