Emily Davies
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Sarah Emily Davies was an English feminist who founded Girton College, Cambridge. She campaigned as a suffragist and for women's rights to university education.
Emily Davies portrait by Rudolph Lehmann, 1880
Girton College, Cambridge
From left to right in foreground: Frances Balfour, Millicent Fawcett, Ethel Snowden, Emily Davies (with black bonnet) and Sophie Bryant
Millicent Fawcett
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Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett was an English political activist and writer. She campaigned for women's suffrage by legal change and in 1897–1919 led Britain's largest women's rights association, the
Emily Davies
…footing. Cambridge University only began to grant full university degrees to women in 1940. Later life From left to right in foreground: Frances Balfour, Millicent Fawcett, Ethel Snowden, Emily Davies (with black bonnet) and Sophie Bryant After resigning from Girton in 1904, Davies became secretary of the London branch…
Fawcett, c. 1873
Fawcett's parents, Newson and Louisa Garrett, in their old age
Millicent and Henry Fawcett
Millicent Fawcett co-founded Newnham College for Women in 1871