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
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
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was an English physician and suffragist. She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon and as a co-founder and dean of the London S
Millicent Fawcett
…interests of their father, a convert from Conservatism to Gladstonian Liberalism, a combative man, and a keen patriot." As a child, Fawcett's elder sister Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, who became Britain's first female doctor, introduced her to Emily Davies, an English suffragist. In her mother's biography, Louisa Garrett Anderson…
Detail from a portrait of Garrett Anderson circa 1900
A portrait of Garrett in the 1860s
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson before the Faculty of Medicine, Paris