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In 1868 Millicent joined the London Suffrage Committee, and in 1869 spoke at the first public pro-suffrage meeting held in London. [3] In March 1870 she spoke in Brighton, her husband's constituency. As a speaker she was said to have a clear voice. [3]
Millicent Fawcett became a member of the new group and joined its executive in 1881. The suffragists had hopes for the 1884 Reform Bill, but its passage was blocked by the Lords until the liberal government agreed to a redistribution of seats.
Millicent Fawcett began campaigning for women’s equality in 1866, and was instrumental in achieving first votes for women in 1918. At The Fawcett Society, we’ve continued her legacy of fighting sexism through impactful research and hard-hitting campaigns for over 155 years.
Aug 16, 2023 · Millicent Fawcett. By 1875, she co-founded the newly built Newnham College, an all-female college at Cambridge University. With her career blossoming, sadly her personal life would end up consuming much of her time.
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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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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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When she was eighteen, at a party given by the radical suffragists Clementia and Peter Taylor, Millicent Garrett met the blind Cambridge professor of political economy and Liberal MP Henry Fawcett (1833–1884), who was fourteen years her senior. They married on 23 April 1867.
