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English political activist and writer
- Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE (née Garrett; 11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English political activist and writer.
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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 ...
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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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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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.
Aug 16, 2023 · Regarded by many as the most influential leader of the moderate women’s suffrage movement in Britain, Millicent Fawcett was not just a campaigner for votes for women but also for many other causes which affected women, ranging from education, careers to divorce rights.
The suffragists were led by Millicent Fawcett, head of the National Union for Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). It was founded in 1897 but merged with other organisations that dated back to...
Millicent Fawcett, a radical and pioneering feminist, is best known as the leader of the suffragists, the constitutional campaigners for women’s votes. Born in Aldeburgh on 11 June 1847, Millicent Garrett was the eighth of the 11 children born to businessman Newson Garrett and his wife Louisa, neé Dunnell.
