Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, GBE was an English feminist and suffragist. She is the founder of the Fawcett Society who carry on her fight for equal rights for women. Fawcett’s interest in politics began at an early age encouraged by her enterprising family. In 1865 Fawcett’s sister Louise took her to a speech on Women’s …
Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, philosopher and advocate of Women’s rights. Wollstonecraft was brought up by an abusive father whom she left at age 17 when her mother died. She set up a school in Newington Green with her sister, who had fled an abusive marriage. She used this experience to write the pamphlet …
Emily Wilding Davison is most famous for her tragic death when running into the path of King George V’s horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby on 4 June 1913. Thousands of suffragettes accompanied the coffin and tens of thousands lined the streets on the day of her funeral. Davison was a militant activist who fought …
Emmeline Pankhurst was a political activist and the leader of the British suffragette movement. She fought for the rights of women and used militant tactics never before associated with women to bring attention to women’s suffrage. Pankhurst fought for the vote for women with the belief that if women were able to vote they would …