Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Feminism, Feminists, Women’s Rights, Gender Issues, Sexism, Family, Marriage
- Curriculum: Women’s History, 20th & 21st Century European History, 19th Century European History, British History
Article abstract: Mrs. Fawcett was a leader in advancing the causes of women’s suffrage, education, and social reform. She also worked to end the double standard in the grounds for divorce, to improve women’s rights of guardianship over their children, and to open the legal profession to women. From 1897 to 1919, she was president of the nonviolent National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies.
Early Life
Millicent Garrett Fawcett was the fifth daughter of ten children of Newson Garrett, a self-made wealthy corn and coal merchant and shipowner, and...
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