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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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Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE (née Garrett; 11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English political activist and writer. She campaigned for women's suffrage by legal change and in 1897–1919 led Britain's largest women's rights association, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), [ 1 ] explaining, "I cannot say I ...
Forgotten hero, Millicent Fawcett, lived in such a world and devoted her life to changing it, helping to guarantee women’s right to vote and enable the improved gender equality we enjoy today. Millicent Fawcett (née Garrett) was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk in 1847.
The failure of Mill’s 1867 amendment led to more formal and organised lobbying for the women’s franchise. Millicent Garrett Fawcett was a founding committee member of the London Society for Woman Suffrage in 1867 and, despite her youth, spoke from the platform at its first public meeting.
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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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The statue of Millicent Garrett Fawcett was unveiled in 2018, the centenary year of the 1918 Representation of the People Act. It is the first to depict a woman in Parliament Square and commemorates one of the most influential feminists of the past 150 years. The figure faces the Houses of Parliament, the institution Millicent lobbied for ...
In 1886, not yet forty years old, she was the widow of Henry Fawcett, one of the leading figures in British political life, and herself a writer and speaker of note.
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