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

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.

Item Date:  1889

Stock No:  42796      £375

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