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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 Fawcett. Millicent Garrett Fawcett ( Aldeburgh, Suffolk, 11 de junio de 1847- Londres, 5 de agosto de 1929 fue una feminista, intelectual, líder política y sindical y escritora británica. Fue líder durante 50 años del movimiento sufragista moderado en Inglaterra.
Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847 – 1929) was a leading Suffragist and campaigner for equal rights for women. She led the biggest suffrage organisation, the non-violent (NUWSS) from 1890-1919 and played a key role in gaining women the vote. Reflecting her passion for education, she helped to found Newnham College, Cambridge.
Millicent Fawcett, née Garrett le 11 juin 1847 à Aldeburgh dans le Suffolk et morte le 5 août 1929 à Bloomsbury , est une femme politique, écrivaine et militante féministe britannique. Elle fait partie du mouvement suffragiste , dans lequel elle adopte une position modérée par le biais de réformes législatives, et s'attache à promouvoir l' éducation des femmes .
Millicent Garrett was the seventh of the 10 children of Newson Garrett, a shipowner and political radical, who for years supported the efforts of his eldest daughter, the pioneer woman physician and medical educator Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, to be admitted to the practice of medicine. In April 1867 Millicent married Henry Fawcett, a radical politician and professor of political economy at ...
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 ...
Millicent Garrett Fawcett was not in 1886 feminism's single dominant figure, but she was its intellectual leader and one of its most respected members. Her political activity between the beginning of the Home Rule crisis and the on-set of the South African war in 1899 demonstrates the range of feminist con-
