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Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett was the leader of the peaceful campaign for women’s suffrage and the co-founder of Newnham College, Cambridge. She lived at 2 Gower Street in Bloomsbury for 45 years, and it was while there in 1928 that she saw women finally achieve equal voting rights with men. Millicent Garrett Fawcett in the 1880s.
Millicent Fawcett (née Garrett) was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk in 1847. Unusually for the time, her father, a wealthy businessman, encouraged her to read widely and take an interest in politics—a sphere normally reserved for men. She wasn’t the only pioneering woman in the family: she was the eighth out of her parent’s ten children and ...
Millicent Garrett Fawcett. Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett was a leading figure in the national movement for women's suffrage. Based in London, she was President of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1907 to 1919. Her legacy is kept alive today by the Fawcett Society - the UK's leading charity campaigning for gender ...
28. Feb. 2020 · Dame Millicent Fawcett was born Millicent Garrett on the 11th of June 1847. Her father, Newson Garrett, had managed the family’s pawnshop in London and later developed a career as a merchant, with a corn and coal warehouse in Suffolk; her mother, Louisa Dunnell, was a fervent proponent of Evangelicalism and raised a family of 11 Garrett siblings (6 sisters and 5 brothers, of whom 1 died in ...
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett (1847–1929)British feminist author, speaker, and political leader who witnessed the formal initiation of the women's suffrage campaign in 1867, led the moderate movement for women's enfranchisement, and lived to see the extension of suffrage to women on equal terms with men in 1928.
24. Apr. 2018 · A statue commemorating the life of the suffragist, Millicent Fawcett, has been unveiled opposite Parliament. She campaigned for women's right to vote during the early 20th Century and is seen as ...
米利森特·加勒特·福西特夫人Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett（1847～1929）英国女权运动领导人。也翻译为米利森特·伽莱特·弗赛特。1897～1919年任全国妇女选举权协会联合会主席。在她所领导的这一组织推动下，《全民代表法案》于1918年获得通过，使600万英国妇女获得选举权。著有《政治经济学入门》(1870 ...
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