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In 1886 Millicent Fawcett broke with the Liberal Party over Irish home rule. In 1888 she was one of the founders of the Women’s Liberal Unionist Association though, like many other free traders, she resigned in 1904 after Joseph Chamberlain, the Liberal Unionist leader, embraced tariff reform.
In 1919 Fawcett was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Birmingham. [3] In the 1925 New Year Honours she was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE). [28] Millicent Fawcett died in 1929 at her London home in Gower Street, Bloomsbury. [29]
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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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Jun 11, 2018 · The tireless campaigner, who considered herself a moderate, was also a leader in education, helping to found the all-women Newnham College at Cambridge University.
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Her connections with higher education helped to recruit the university educated women who were prominent in the leadership of the movement and to give it credibility among educated men: in 1908 she became the first woman to address the Oxford Union (although that body did not vote in favour of women's suffrage until 1913).
Oct 26, 2024 · Born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, the daughter of an East Anglian shipowner, Millicent Garrett was drawn into the women's movement by her sister Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917), the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain.
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Dec 16, 2022 · Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847–1929) was a pioneering Victorian feminist and a skilled writer in a variety of genres. Her social consciousness and commitment to liberal feminism led her to write not only on women’s emancipation but also on economic and political questions.
