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FAWCETT
(Dame Millicent, Mrs Henry Fawcett, 1847-1929, Leader of the Women's Suffrage Movement)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed 'M. G. Fawcett' to Mrs S. GIMSON
(wife of Sydney Ansell, 1860-1938, from 1888 President of the Leicester Secular Society) telling him that she had a very comfortable journey here yesterday and found my friend here waiting for me in the station. I have to thank you and Mr Gimson very warmly indeed for your very kind hospitality to me. I shall look back with great pleasure to my little visit to you. With best regards to you all, not forgetting Miss Morley & Basil..., 3 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, Quarrydene, Westwood, Leeds, 4th December, postmarked
Item Date: 1889
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Background
Fawcett 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. She said I cannot say I became a suffragist. I always was one, from the time I was old enough to think at all about the principles of Representative Government. She tried to broaden women's chances of higher education, as a governor of Bedford College, London (now Royal Holloway) and co-founding Newnham College, Cambridge in 1875. In 2018, a century after the Representation of the People Act, she was the first woman honoured by a statue in Parliament Square.
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