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	Millicent Fawcett biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Millicent Fawcett (June 11, 1847 - August 5, 1929) was a British suffragist (as opposed to a suffragette, who were usually militantly violent) and an early feminist.
		She was born Millicent Garrett in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and in 1867 she married the economist Henry Fawcett, who was a Radical MP for Brighton.
		Fawcett was the sister of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first English female doctor, and the mother of Philippa Fawcett, who famously came above the senior wrangler in the Cambridge mathematics examinations.
	millicent-fawcett.biography.ms (156 words)

	Fawcett (print-only)
		Millicent Garrett also had a famous older sister Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, who was a pioneer of women in medicine (the first woman to graduate from the University of St Andrews) and struggled to be allowed to practice as a doctor.
		Fawcett's performance in the Trinity Intercollege Examination which she sat after two years at Cambridge was outstanding and it was clear that she would excel in the Tripos Examinations of 1890.
		Philippa Fawcett was an ardent worker pursuing her ends along no devious routes and she may be truly regarded as one of the founders of the widespread educational system which continues to afford sure hope of common international effort in South Africa.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Printonly/Fawcett.html (1900 words)

	Newnham College Cambridge: Newnham Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Millicent Garrett Fawcett 1847 - 1929, DBE 1925
		Millicent Garrett Fawcett was a daughter of the determinedly feminist Newson Garrett, corn and coal merchant of Aldeburgh, and his wife, Louisa.
		The Fawcetts’ Cambridge drawing room was a key meeting place for the supporters of women’s education in Cambridge and Millicent herself gave help and shrewd advice both in the early planning and in the growth of Newnham.
	www.newn.cam.ac.uk /about/bio_millicentfawcett.shtml (246 words)

	Millicent Garrett Fawcett (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Fawcett, who had been blinded in a shooting accident in 1857, had been expected to marry Millicent's older sister Elizabeth Garrett, but in 1865 she decided to concentrate of her attempts to become a doctor.
		Millicent now had more time for her own political career and after the death of Lydia Becker in 1890, she was elected president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
		Millicent Fawcett's uninteresting and Mrs Taylor was inaudible from a sore throat.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /WfawcettM.htm (1608 words)

	Fawcett, Dame Millicent Garrett, 1847-1929 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Fawcett thanks the recipient for sending her a copy of Country Conversations.
		Millicent Garrett was born at Aldeburgh, Suffolk on 11 June 1847 and educated at a school at Blackheath.
		Millicent Fawcett was a tireless leader in the struggle for women's suffrage, serving as president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies from 1897 to 1918.
	library.lib.mcmaster.ca /archives/findaids/fonds/f/fawcett.htm (142 words)

	Westminster Abbey - The Library and Archives - People Buried or Commemorated - Henry and Millicent Fawcett
		The memorial to Millicent, consisting of bronze wreathed roundels on either side of Henry’s, was added in 1932 and is by Sir Herbert Baker.
		Millicent was born on 11 June 1847, a daughter of Newson Garrett (d.1893) and Louisa (Dunnell).
		Henry was buried at Trumpington churchyard in Cambridge and Millicent died in London and was cremated at Golders Green.
	www.westminster-abbey.org /library/burial/fawcett.htm (436 words)

	Heartland - Petra's Scotland pages - Suffragettes
		Born Millicent Garret in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, she was married (1867) to Henry Fawcett (1833–1884, a blind British statesman and economist, who also campaigned for women’s suffrage).
		In 1897 Millicent Fawcett founded the "National Union of Women's Suffrage", which was renamed in her honour 1953 to the Fawcett Society and is still working and fighting for equality between men and women at work, in the home and in public life.
		Millicent Fawcett was a tireless campaigner for women’s rights, although her fight was quite moderate.
	www.albamusic.net /suffragettese02.html (1012 words)

	Henry Fawcett
		Henry Fawcett, the son of a draper, was born in Salisbury in 1833.
		Fawcett, Mill and Taylor attempted to persuade the House of Commons to grant women the vote.
		Fawcett continued to argue for equal political rights for women and clashed with Gladstone's over his refusal to give women the franchise in the 1884 Reform Act.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRfawcett.htm (579 words)

	Millicent Fawcett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her memory is preserved now in the name of the Fawcett Society, and in Millicent Fawcett Hall, constructed in 1929 in Westminster as a place that women could use to debate and discuss the issues that affected them.
		Fawcett was a moderate campaigner, distancing herself from the militant and violent activities of the Pankhursts and the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).
		While Fawcett was not a pacifist, she risked dividing the organisation if she ordered a halt to the campaign, and the diverting of NUWSS funds to the government, as the WSPU had done.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Millicent_Fawcett (860 words)

	AIM25: Women's Library: Papers of Millicent Garrett Fawcett (via CobWeb/3.1 pl2.cs.utk.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Administrative/Biographical history: Millicent Garrett Fawcett was born in Suffolk in 1847, the daughter of Newson and Louisa Garrett and the sister of Agnes Garrett, Louise Smith and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.
		Fawcett, despite her support for the movement's actions, had initially believed that the suffrage movement might be damaged by identification with such controversial work.
		Fawcett's actions forced Cust to marry a young women seduced by him but the lengths to which she carried her campaign led to concern by her friends.
	www.aim25.ac.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /cats/65/6723.htm (1347 words)

	Fawcetts, Henry and Millicent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Fawcett was a Member of Parliament, an educational reformer, and an economist.
		It was Fawcett's special wish to form a park on the site of his home so after his death in 1884, his widow Millicent Fawcett co-operated with Octavia Hill and the Kyrle Society in the formation of Vauxhall Park.
		Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929) was the daughter of Newson Garrett, a ship owner and radical and the younger sister of the pioneering woman physician and educator Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.
	www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk /Fawcetts.html (395 words)

	Fawcett - Millicent Fawcett hits the airwaves (18/1/06)
		Interest in Millicent Garrett Fawcett last week led BBC Radio 4 to investigate the history behind the central London hall named in her honour.
		She died just months after women got the right to vote on an equal basis with men in 1929 and Millicent Fawcett Hall was built to commemorate her.
		The Fawcett Society still uses the venue for events such as the ‘Women in Politics’ discussion held in conjunction with the New Statesman magazine last April.
	www.fawcettsociety.org.uk /index.asp?PageID=168 (240 words)

	Millicent Garrett Fawcett Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929) was a British feminist, who led the nonviolent campaign for votes for women.
		Millicent Garrett was born at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, in England, on June 11, 1847, one of the younger children in a large, middle-class family.
		Fawcett supported the compromise in 1918 that enfranchised women age 30 and older and men age 21 and older.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/millicent-garrett-fawcett (1462 words)

	National Union of Suffrage Societies (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Millicent Fawcett believed that it was important that the NUWSS campaigned for a wide variety of causes.
		However, this did not happen and although Millicent Fawcett had always been a Liberal, she became increasing angry at the party's unwillingness to give full support to women's suffrage.
		Fawcett, a mass meeting was held of such size and enthusiasm as men of long political experience declared had seldom being equalled… A week later came the monster demonstration in Hyde Park, under the auspices of the Women' Social and Political Union.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /Wnuwss.htm (1188 words)

	The Fawcetts
		Faithful enthusiast of John Stuart Mill, Henry Fawcett was one of the last Classical economists.
		Millicent Garrett Fawcett was actively involved in politics and Women's Suffrage movement (she was elected as president of the not-so-militant National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in 1890, a post which she kept until 1914).
		Reasonably well-educated for the time, Millicent Fawcett also served the crucial role of secretary for her blind husband.
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/fawcett.htm (346 words)

	The Fawcett Library in The AnswerBank: Arts & Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Society was at the centre of the non-militant wing of the campaign for women's suffrage during the latter half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and a great deal of material from the campaign and related issues was accumulated.
		Millicent Fawcett, née Garrett (1847-1929), was for 50 years the leader of the movement for women's suffrage in England.
		Her father was a shipowner and political radical, who had supported the efforts of Millicent's elder sister, the pioneer woman physician and medical educator Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, to be admitted to the practice of medicine.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article2891.html (545 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 Woman's Hour - Timeline:Millicent Garrett Fawcett (via CobWeb/3.1 pl2.cs.utk.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Millicent was seventh of the ten high-flying Garrett children and had watched her elder sister,
		Millicent was a "suffragist" believing passionately that the vote could be won best by constitutional means.
		The Fawcett Society, which can trace direct lineage back to the NUWSS, is named after her.
	www.bbc.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /radio4/womanshour/timeline/millicent_garrett_fawcett.shtml (152 words)

	Punch Cartoons: Daniella Eidelberg. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Millicent Millefleurs that women could be as intelligent as men, but they can never compare in strength and stature.
		Millicent Garrett Fawcett's connection to elite society, her good looks as well as her name make it likely that she was the model for Miss.
		Although Fawcett did not become a crusader for the suffrage movement until the 1880's, she was well known in political circles as an active member in the Anti-Contagious Diseases Act campaign.
	projects.vassar.edu /punch/EidelbergCartoon1.html (313 words)

	Fawcett biography
		Perhaps it is significant that when Millicent Fawcett published her autobiography What I Remember in 1924 [What I remember (London, 1924).',2)" onmouseover="window.status='Click to see reference';return true">2], she did not mention the birth of her daughter Philippa.
		After dinner toasts were proposed: the healths drunk were those of the Principal, Miss Fawcett, her Coach (Mr Hobson) and Senior and Junior Optimes.
		Millicent Fawcett, ever conscious of her role supporting women's suffrage, wrote of her daughter's success:-
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Fawcett.html (1979 words)

	WowEssays.com - Woman's Suffrage In The 19Th Century
		Millicent Fawcett believed that is was important to campaign for a wide variety of causes, not just for the vote.
		Fawcett spent her life fighting for the women’s suffrage by giving National speaking tours, Parliamentary lobbying, and party alliances.
		Millicent Fawcett declared that the NUWSS was suspending all political activity until the conflict was over.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/ad1/keb122.shtml (1716 words)

	Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company Limited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Born in 1847, she was the sister of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman to become a physician in Britain.
		She married Henry Fawcett, the radical MP for Brighton, who had been blinded in a shooting accident.
		Fawcett supported the war effort in 1914, believing that if women played a full part, they would be rewarded with the suffrage later.
	www.buses.co.uk /history/fleethist/661mf.htm (173 words)

	Dame Millicent Fawcett (née Garrett) (1847-1929), A leader of the women's suffrage movement
		Millicent Garrett was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, the sister of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.
		In 1867 she married the blind Liberal MP Henry Fawcett, whose guide and secretary she became as well as writing her own articles on women's education and suffrage.
		Following her husband's death Fawcett wrote reviews, biographies and popular works and became involved in the 'purity' movement to curb child abuse.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp01548 (182 words)

	NPG 1603; Henry Fawcett; Dame Millicent Fawcett (née Garrett)
		Dame Millicent Fawcett (née Garrett) (1847-1929), A leader of the women's suffrage movement.
		Henry Fawcett, who was blinded in a shooting accident in 1858, had a distinguished career as professor of political economy at Cambridge, (1863-84), and as a Member of Parliament.
		In this intimate portrait by Ford Madox Brown, Fawcett is seen together with his wife Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and appears to be dictating to her.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/portrait.asp?mkey=mw02189 (251 words)

	A Vote of Their Own
		Millicent Fawcett, a leader in the suffrage movement remarked, ".
		He remarked that "the only justification for such a state of things was a disbelief either in representative government or in the fitness of women to vote." <19> Mrs.
		Fawcett points to the practical assistance of women in the electoral process as evidence of women's ability.
	www.loyno.edu /~history/journal/1991-2/bergeron.htm (2755 words)

	Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Elizabeth became friendly with Fawcett, the blind MP for Brighton, but she rejected his marriage proposal, as she believed it would damage her career.
		Fawcett later married her younger sister Millicent Garrett.
		Millicent Garrett Fawcett was the leader of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and Agnes Fawcett was a famous furniture designer.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /WandersonE.htm (2062 words)

	Fawcett - Fawcett's history
		The Fawcett Society moved into the 1980s with a rallying call, a Women’s Action Day. This spearheaded by Mary Stott, former Fawcett chair and editor of the Guardian's Women's Pages.
		This event brought together representatives of nearly 70 organisations with a membership of at least a million members, and signalled Fawcett’s transformation from an extremely well-respected, but comparatively little-known body, to the professional and better-known organisation that we are today.
		Fawcett's archive is kept at The Women's Library, fomerly The Fawcett Library.
	www.fawcettsociety.org.uk /index.asp?PageID=29 (296 words)

	Fawcett, Henry - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As member of Parliament and later postmaster general under William Gladstone he achieved several important improvements in the postal system.
		His wife, Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 1847-1929, noted English feminist, became the leader of the nonmilitant suffragists.
		She was made Dame of the British Empire in 1924.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-fawcett.html (243 words)

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