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In 2018, 100 years since women first secured the right to vote, Millicent Fawcett made history once again. She was the first woman commemorated with a statue in Parliament Square – a landmark moment for the wider suffrage movement, and for women everywhere.
The Fawcett Society is a membership charity in the United Kingdom which campaigns for women's rights. The organisation dates back to 1866, when Millicent Garrett Fawcett dedicated her life to the peaceful campaign for women's suffrage.
The archives of Millicent Fawcett are held at The Women's Library, London School of Economics, which in 2018 renamed one of its campus buildings Fawcett House in honor of her role in the British suffrage movement and her connections to the area.
Nov 11, 2018 · The LSE buildings on Clements Inn are renamed Pankhurst House, Fawcett House and Pethick-Lawrence House after the key suffrage campaigners connected to the area.
Millicent Garrett Fawcett and the Early Women's Suffrage Movement The online exhibition, 'Millicent Fawcett and the Early Women's Suffrage movement' was curated by suffrage historian Elizabeth Crawford .
Millicent Garrett (1847-1929) was born at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, one of the ten children of Louisa and Newson Garrett, a prosperous maltster. She received little formal education but was brought up to think for herself and was inspired by the success of her elder sister Elizabeth, who in the early 1860s negotiated a path to a professional career ...
Millicent joined several women’s suffrage groups which were writing letters, holding meetings, and lobbying for the vote, becoming President of the largest, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, from 1897 until 1919.
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