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) thanking her for her kind letter which crossed mine to you, and also for your postcard... In reply to your enquiry about food, I think I should like my most substantial meal before the lecture & a cup of hot bread & milk after..., 2 sides 8vo., 2 Gower Street, 28th November, no year

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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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