Catalogue description PAPERS OF MILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT, LL.D

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Title: PAPERS OF MILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT, LL.D
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M50/2/1-36 WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

 

M50/2/1 Correspondence (In)

 

M50/2/2. Mrs. Fawcett's Indexes To Her Letters

 

M50/2/3-4 Notes by Mrs. Fawcett

 

M50/2/3. Analyses of Parliamentary Divisions

 

M50/2/4. Notes for speeches

 

M50/2/5-21 The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies

 

M50/2/5. Correspondence (In)

 

M50/2/6-8 Minutes (Duplicated)

 

M50/2/6. Council of N.U.W.S.S.

 

M50/2/7. Executive Committee

 

M50/2/8. Election Fighting Fund Committee

 

M50/2/9. Circulars

 

M50/2/10. Information Bureau Information Sheets

 

M50/2/11-12 Annual Reports

 

M50/2/11. Executive Committee of National Society for Women's Suffrage Central Committee

 

M50/2/12. Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage

 

M50/2/13. Demonstrations and Exhibitions of the N.U.W.S.S.

 

M50/2/14. Miscellaneous Papers of N.U.W.S.S.

 

M50/2/15-21 Publications of Societies Within the N.U.W.S.S.

 

M50/2/15. Cambridge Women's Suffrage Association

 

M50/2/16. Central National Society for Women's Suffrage

 

M50/2/17. Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage

 

M50/2/18. Central Society for Women's Suffrage

 

M50/2/19. Central Society, later the London Society

 

M50/2/20. National Society for Women's Suffrage

 

M50/2/21. National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies

 

M50/2/22-24 The International Woman Suffrage Alliance

 

M50/2/22. Correspondence and Draft Minutes

 

M50/2/23. Congresses of the I.W.S.A.

 

M50/2/24. Publications of the I.W.S.A.

 

M50/2/25. The International Council of Women

 

M50/2/26. Newspaper Cuttings on Women's Suffrage

 

M50/2/27-36 Miscellaneous Printed Papers on Women's Suffrage

 

M50/2/27. Women's Suffrage Calendar

 

M50/2/28-34 Publications by Women's Suffrage Societies Not Members of the N.U.W.S.S.

 

M50/2/28. The Artists' Suffrage League

 

M50/2/29. The Church League for Women's Suffrage

 

M50/2/30-31 The Men's League for Women's Suffrage

 

M50/2/32. The Women's Franchise League

 

M50/2/33. The Women's Freedom League

 

M50/2/34-35 The Women's Social and Political Union

 

M50/2/36. Miscellaneous Pamphlets etc. on Women's Suffrage

 

M50/3/1-28 Education of Women

 

M50/3/1-16 Universities

 

M50/3/1-3 University Degrees for Women

 

M50/3/1. Correspondence

 

M50/3/2. Newspaper Cuttings

 

M50/3/3. Printed Papers

 

M50/3/4-11 University Reports and Prospectuses

 

M50/3/4. Girton College, Cambridge

 

M50/3/5. Newnham College, Cambridge

 

M50/3/6. King's College, Ladies Dept., London

 

M50/3/7. University College, London

 

M50/3/8. Westfield College, London

 

M50/3/9. Royal Holloway College, London

 

M50/3/10. Somerville Hall, Oxford

 

M50/3/11. Queen Margaret College, Glasgow

 

M50/3/12-16. Women and Medical Schools

 

M50/3/13. Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women

 

M50/3/14. London School of Medicine for Women

 

M50/3/15. Medical Women for India Fund

 

M50/3/16. Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A.

 

M50/3/17-24 Educational Establishments other than Universities

 

M50/3/17. Alexandra College, Dublin

 

M50/3/18. Alexandra Native Girls' English Institution, Bombay

 

M50/3/19. College for Working Women

 

M50/3/20. The Forsyth Technical College Co. Ltd.

 

M50/3/21. Ladies' Branch of the Horticultural College, Swanley, Kent

 

M50/3/22. North London School of Telegraphy

 

M50/3/23. School of Art

 

M50/3/24. School for Girls

 

M50/3/25-28 Miscellaneous Papers on Education

 

M50/3/25. Education Reform League

 

M50/3/26. Corporal Punishment

 

M50/3/27. Letter Re Schools Inquiry Commission

 

M50/3/28. Printed Papers

 

M50/4/1-26 EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN

 

M50/4/1-2 Societies for Promoting the Employment of Women

 

M50/4/1. Society for Promoting the Employment of Women

 

M50/4/2. Society For Promoting the Return of Women As Poor Law Guardians

 

M50/4/3-18 Trade Unions and Professional Associations

 

M50/4/3. British Nurses Association

 

M50/4/4. Ladies' Shorthand Association

 

M50/4/5. Lady Guide Association

 

M50/4/6-8 London Pupil Teachers' Association

 

M50/4/9. Manchester and Salford Women Citizen's Association

 

M50/4/10. National Union of Working Women

 

M50/4/11. North London Nursing Association

 

M50/4/12. Northern Workhouse Nursing Association

 

M50/4/13. Society of Women Welders

 

M50/4/14. Teachers' Education Loan Society

 

M50/4/15. University Association of Women Teachers

 

M50/4/16. Women's London Gardening Association

 

M50/4/17. Women's Printing Society

 

M50/4/18. Miscellaneous

 

M50/4/19-25 Particular Jobs

 

M50/4/19. Accountancy

 

M50/4/20. Bloomsbury Circular Addressing and Agency Co.

 

M50/4/21. Home Industries

 

M50/4/22. Match Girls Employed by Bryant and May

 

M50/4/23. Post Office

 

M50/4/24-25 Typewriting

 

M50/4/26. Miscellaneous Printed Papers

 

M50/5/1-34 WELFARE OF WOMEN

 

M50/5/1-3 Children

 

M50/5/1. Guardianship of Infants

 

M50/5/2. Employment of Children

 

M50/5/3. Children's Homes

 

M50/5/4-13 Social Clubs and Societies for Protection of Women and Girls

 

M50/5/4. Girls' Evening Homes

 

M50/5/5. Girls' Friendly Society

 

M50/5/6. Liverpool Ladies' Union of Workers Among Women and Girls

 

M50/5/7. Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants

 

M50/5/8. Moral Reform Union

 

M50/5/9. The Soho Club and Home

 

M50/5/10. Women's University Association for Work in the Poorer Districts of London

 

M50/5/11. Working Ladies' Guild

 

M50/5/12. Y.W.C.A. Travellers' Aid Dept.

 

M50/5/13. Miscellaneous Papers On Moral Welfare

 

M50/5/14-25 Sick and Friendly Societies

 

M50/5/14. Alexandra Friendly Society

 

M50/5/15. Artists

 

M50/5/16. Church of England Temperance Benefit Society

 

M50/5/17. Heart of Oak Benefit Society

 

M50/5/18. Helen Lillian Female Friendly Society, Norwich

 

M50/5/19. Hospital Saturday Fund

 

M50/5/20. Metropolitan Provident Medical Association

 

M50/5/21. Southwark and Newington Women's Benefit Society

 

M50/5/22. United Sisters' Friendly Society

 

M50/5/23. Women's Trades Union Provident League

 

M50/5/24. Working Women's Benefit Society, Oxford

 

M50/5/25. Miscellaneous

 

M50/5/26-28 Convalescent Homes

 

M50/5/26. 90, Harley St., London

 

M50/5/27. Ferny Bank, Babbacombe, Devon

 

M50/5/28. Stanwell, Staines

 

M50/5/29-30 Hospitals

 

M50/5/29. Clapham Maternity Hospital

 

M50/5/30. New Hospital For Women, Euston Ed.

 

M50/5/31-34. Housing

 

M50/5/31. Portman Buildings

 

M50/5/32. Mayfield House

 

M50/5/33. 27 Holland Park Gardens

 

M50/5/34. The Ladies' Residential Chambers

 

M50/6/1-14 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO WOMEN (Chronological order)

 

M50/7/1-5 PAPERS RELATING TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR

 

M50/7/1. War Time Council on Drink and National Efficiency

 

M50/7/2. Parliamentary War Savings Committee

 

M50/7/3. British Women's Patriotic League

 

M50/7/4. United Workers

 

M50/7/5. Miscellaneous Pamphlets on the War

 

M50/8/1-8 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

 

APPENDICES

 

APPENDIX I

 

Books given to Manchester Public Library in 1922 by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies

 

APPENDIX II

 

Other Women's Suffrage material in the Library contemporary with the movement or by people involved in it.

Date: 1866-1931
Related material:

APPENDIX I

 

BOOKS GIVEN TO MANCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY IN 1922 BY THE NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES

 

324.3 12 International Woman Suffrage Alliance Report of Seventh Congress. 15-21 June 1913.

 

324.3 M5a The Story of the Women's Suffrage Movement, by Bertha Mason, 1912.

 

396 B10 Woman's Work and Woman's Culture, edit. by Josephine E. Butler, 1869.

 

396 B54 Essays in Medical Sociology, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, 1902.

 

396 B58 A Handbook for Women Engaged in Social and Political Work, edit. By Helen Blackburn, 1881.

 

396 B62 In the Hand of the Potter, by Harold Begbie, 1912.

 

396 C43 Criminal Law Amendment Committee, Conference June 3, 1913.

 

396 D29 Women's Nature and Privilege, by Hedwig Dohn, translated by Constance Campbell, n.d

 

396 D29 The New Democracy, by Louise Downes, 1910.

 

396 D34 Essays on Social Reconstruction After The War, edited by Lucy Gardner, 1917.

 

396 H29 London's Underworld, by Thos. Holmes, 1912.

 

396 H34 Where Shall She Live? The Homelessness of the Woman Worker, by Mary Higgs and Edw. E. Hayward, for the National Assoc. for Women's Lodging Homes, 1910.

 

396 H35 Where Shall She Live? The Answer, by some, 1914.

 

396 I 11 Report of the International Council of Women Assembled by the National Woman Suffrage Assoc., Washington, D.C., Mar. 25 - Apr. 1, 1888. National Woman Suffrage Assoc., 1888. Given by Susan B. Anthony to Lydia Becker, 8 July 1888.

 

396 I 12 Report of the International Congress of Women, Zurich, May 12 - 17, 1919. Published by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Geneva.

 

396 L2 Women and Their Work, by Hon. Mrs. Arthur Lyttleton, 1901.

 

396 L14 The Prisoner. An Experience of Forcible Feeding, by Helen Gordon, 1911.

 

396 S25 Woman and Womanhood, by C.W. Saleeby, 1912

 

396 S30 The Woman Socialist, by Ethel Snowden, 1907.

 

396 S34 Women in the Socialist State, by H.M. Swanwick, 1921.

 

396 S35 The War In Its Effect Upon Women, by H.M. Swanwick, Aug. 1916. Published by the Women's International League.

 

396 S55 The Awakening of Women, by Frances Swiney, 1908.

 

396 S60 The Woman Question in Europe, edited by Theodore Stanton, 1884.

 

396 S65 Woman A Few Shrieks, by X. Appendix by Mrs. Philip Snowden, [1908].

 

396.1 D1 Downward Paths. An Inquiry into the Causes which Contribute to the Making of the Prostitute, 1916. Foreword by A. Maude Royden.

 

396.1 B1 Personal Reminiscence of a Great Crusade, by Josephine E. Butler, 1911.

 

396.1 B6 In Darkest England and the Way Out, by General Booth, 1890.

 

396.1 C6 Marriage and Divorce, by Cecil Chapman. Woman Citizen Series No.1.

 

396.1 J1 International Federation for the Abolition of State Regulation of Vice. Report of Portsmouth Conference, 15-18 June 1914.

 

396.2 C1 Status of Women, 1066-1909, by A.B.W. and M.W. Chapman, 1909.

 

396.2 J1 Women and the Unfair Position they Occupy at the Present Time, by J.W.F. Jacques, 1912. Published by N.U.W.S.S.

 

396.3 A6 The Trial of Susan B Anthony on a Charge of Illegal Voting at the Presidential Election, Nov. 1872, 1874.

 

396.3 B6 Record of Women's Suffrage, by Helen Blackburn, 1902.

 

396.3 C1 Women's Suffrage and Militancy, edited by Huntly Carter, 1911.

 

396.3 D1 Women's Suffrage, by Mrs. Ashton Dilke, with introduction by Wm. Woodall, M.P., 1885.

 

396.3 D6 Les Femmes Qui Tuent et Les Femmes Qui Votent, by Alex. Dumas, 1881.

 

396.3 G1 The Militant Suffrage Movement, by Teresa Billington - Grieg [1911].

 

396.3 I 1 Woman Suffrage in Practice, 1913. Published by the International Women's Suffrage Alliance.

 

396.3 M1 Under the Surface, by L. Martindale, n.d

 

396.3 M6 The Story of the Women's Suffrage Movement, by Bertha Mason, 1912.

 

396.3 R1 Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1774-1881, by Harriet H. Robinson, 1881.

 

396.3 S1 Equal Suffrage, by Helen L. Sumner, 1909.

 

396.3 S6 "Press Cuttings", by Bernard Shaw, performed 9 July 1909.

 

396.3 S10 History of Woman Suffrage, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1887. 6 vols.

 

396.3 S15 The Case For Women's Suffrage, edit. by Brougham Villiers, 1907.

 

396.3 W1 The Argument for Women's Electoral Rights Under Amendments XIV-XV of the Constitution of the United States, by Victoria C. Woodhull, 1887.

 

396.3 Z1 Women's Suffrage in Many Lands, by Alice Zimmern, 1909.

 

396.5 B21 Married Women's Work. Report of An Enquiry By the Women's Industrial Council, edit. by Clementia Blake, 1915.

 

396.561 S1 Medical Women. An Historical Sketch by Right Hon. James Stansfield, M.P. Reprinted from The Nineteenth Century Review of July 1877, 1878.

 

396.5655 M1 Women In the Printing Trades. A Sociological Study, edit. by J. Ramsay MacDonald, 1904.

 

396.6 H1 Marriage As A Trade, by Cicely Hamilton, 1909.

 

396.6 R1 Family Life on a Pound a Week, by Mrs. Pember Reeves. Published by the Fabian Soc., 1912.

 

396.6 M1 The Mother and Social Reform, by Anna Martin, 1913.

 

396.6 M2 The Married Woman. A Study, by Anna Martin, 1911.

 

396.9 H1 Women and War. An Appeal to the Women of All Nations, by Frances S. Hallowes, n.d

 

396.9 L1 The White Army. An Impulse of Many Women For An Action Against War, by C. Langelaan-Stoop, 1915.

 

APPENDIX II

 

OTHER WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MATERIAL IN MANCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY WITH THE MOVEMENT OR BY PEOPLE INVOLVED IN IT.

 

Archives Department

 

Miscellaneous papers of Hannah Maria Mitchell, including letters from Mrs. E. Pankhurst and Miss C. Pankhurst to Mr. and Mrs. Sam. Robinson of the Manchester Independent Labour Party, 1906 - 1907. (M220/)

 

Autobiography of Hannah Mitchell (typescript) (MS920.7 M65)

 

Picture postcards and badges of suffragettes, (MISC/504)

 

BR ff 324.3 Su1 Macclesfield Women's Suffrage Society Banner.

 

BR ff 324.3 Su2 Manchester and Salford Women's Suffrage Society Banner.

 

BR ff 324.3 Su3 Manchester Men's League for Women's Suffrage Banner.

 

BR ff 324.3 Su4 United Suffragists Manchester Branch Banner.

 

Social Sciences Library

 

324.3 B1 Union of Practical Suffragists Within the Women's Libraral Federation. Letter from Mrs. Jacob Bright to Lady Cecilia Roberts on the Test Question, 12 Feb. 1897.

 

324.3 B2 Women's Suffrage: A Record of the Women's Suffrage Movement in the British Isles, by Helen Blackburn, 1902. Includes bibliography, 1792-1901.

 

324.3 B6 Newspaper cuttings about Lydia Becker, 1871-1889.

 

324.3 C1 Women's Suffrage and Militancy, edited by Huntley Carter [1911].

 

324.3 C10 Woman in Relation to the State, by Geo. Calderon, 1908.

 

324.3 D6 Letters to A. Friend on Votes For Women, by A.V. Dicey, 1909.

 

324.3 D10 Why Men Should Help Women in Their Claim for Enfranchisement The Economic Aspect, by Chas. V. Drysdale. Published by the Men's League for Women's Suffrage, n.d

 

324.3 E1 Woman's Franchise The Need of the Hour, by E.C. Wolstenholme Elmy. Published by the Independent Labour Party, n.d

 

324.3 F2 The Women's Victory and After, 1911-18 by M.G. Fawcett, 1920.

 

324.3 G3 The Militant Suffrage Movement. Emancipation in a Hurry, by Teresa Billington Grieg, n.d

 

324.3 G7 The Woman M.P. A Peril to Women and the Country, by Arthur Charles Gronno. Published by the Manchester Branch of the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage, 1914.

 

324.3 H1 The Degradation of Womanhood A Protest Against the Suffrage Agitation, by Arthur J. Hawkes, 1909.

 

324.3 H6 The Freedom of Women. An Argument Against the Proposed Extension of the Suffrage to Women, by Ethel B. Harrison, 1908.

 

324.3 H10 Woman Suffrage. A National Danger, by Heber Hart, 1912.

 

324.3 H13 How The Vote Was Won, by Cicely Hamilton. Published by Women Writers' Suffrage League, n.d

 

324.3 H17 Radicals and Reform, Being a Statement of the Case for the Inclusion of Women in the Coming Reform Bill, by J. Keir Hardie, M.P. Published by the National Labour Press Ltd. [1912].

 

324.3 H18 The Citizenship of Women A Plea for Woman's Suffrage, by Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., 1905.

 

324.3 L1 Prisons and Prisoners. Some Personal Experiences, by Constance Lytton and Jane Warton, 1914.

 

324.3 L2 "No Votes For Women". A Reply to Some Recent Anti-Suffrage Publications, by Lady Constance Lytton, 1909.

 

324.3 M5 The Story of the Women's Suffrage Movement, by Bertha Mason, 1912.

 

324.3 M10 Woman Suffrage in Practice, by C. Macmillan, M. Stritt, and M. Verone for International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 1913.

 

344.3 M18 Woman Suffrage, by Arnold Harris Mathew, 1907.

 

324.3 M14 Woman's Effort. A Chronicle of British Women's Fifty Years Struggle for Citizenship, 1865-1914, by A.E. Metcalfe, 1917.

 

324.3 M22 My Faith in Woman Suffrage, by John Masefield, 1910.

 

324.3 Ma1 Manifesto To the Women's Social and Political Union, by women of the Independent Labour Party, n.d

 

324.3 N7 Annual Report of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, 13 Dec. 1900, Liverpool.

 

324.3 N11 National Society for Women's Suffrage Central Committee, Annual Reports, 1871-1885.

 

324.3 N12 Opinions of Conservative Leaders, 1866-1892; Where Women Have the Vote; Physical Force; Opinions of Liberal Leaders, 1906-1909; Mrs. Chapman Catt Presidential Address. Published by the N.U.W.S.S., 1909.

 

324.3 P2 The Suffragette Movement, by E. Sylvia Pankhurst, 1931.

 

324.3 P4 The Right of Women to Exercise the Elective Franchise, by Justitia [Mrs. H.D. Pochin], 1855.

 

324.3 R1 Anti-Suffragist Anxieties, by Bertrand Russell, published by the People's Suffrage Federation [1909].

 

324.3 R9 Way Stations, by Elizabeth Robins, 1913.

 

324.3 S5 The Ladies' Battle, by Molly Elliot Seawell, 1911.

 

324.3 S10 Suffrage Annual and Women's Who's Who, 1913.

 

324.3 V1 The Case for Women's Suffrage, by Brougham Villiers, 1907.

 

324.3 W10 The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage, by Sir Almrott E. Wright, 1913.

 

324.3 Z1 Women's Suffrage in Many Lands, by Alice Zimmern [1909].

 

396 C6 The Duties of Women, by Frances Power Cobbe, 1881.

 

396 D10 Questions Relating to Women, 1860-1908, by Emily Davies, 1910.

 

396 E1 Englishwoman's Year Book, 1899-1916.

 

396 E6 Englishwoman's Review, 1866-1889.

 

396 M6 The Subjection of Women, by John Stuart Mill, 1869.

 

396 S29 The Feminist Movement, by Ethel Snowden, [1913].

 

396.2 M1 Tracts on Married Women's Property 1869-1873, including annual reports of the Executive Committee for the Married Women's Property Bill.

 

396.3 E1 The Englishwoman, 1909-1921.

 

920.7 S1 Millicent Garret Fawcett, by Ray Strachey, 1931.

 

923.242 M11 The Hard Way up. Autobiography of Hannah Mitchell, edited by Geoffrey Mitchell, 1968.

Held by: Manchester Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Fawcett, Dame Millicent, 1847-1929, nee Garrett, feminist and suffragist

Physical description: 151 SERIES
Subjects:
  • London National Society for Women's Suffrage
  • National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies
  • Newnham College, Cambridge
  • International Women Suffrage Alliance
  • Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
  • London
  • Women
  • Women in politics
  • Women's education
  • Women's suffrage
Administrative / biographical background:

Millicent Garrett was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, in 1847, the fifth daughter and seventh child of the ten children of Newson Garrett, merchant. The struggles of her elder sister, Elizabeth, to become a woman doctor made her aware of the unequal treatment of men and women, while her marriage in 1867 to Henry Fawcett, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge and M.P. for Brighton, brought her into close touch with radical thinkers like John Stuart Mill.

 

In 1867 Mrs. Fawcett became a member of the Executive Committee of the recently formed London National Society for Women's Suffrage, becoming President of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in 1897, a position she held till 1918. During this time her chief aim was to gain the vote for/woman (M50/2), but she was also involved in many other causes for improving the position of women. She was one of the founders of Newnham College, where her daughter Philippa was placed, above the senior wrangler in the maths tripes list in 1890. There are several papers in the collection about her attempts to have women admitted to degrees (M50/5/1-3) and others which show her interest in the advancement of female education in general (M50/3/4-28). She was granted an honorary LL.D. by St. Andrew's University in 1905. She was also concerned about the employment or children in theatres (M50/5/2), conditions of employment of women in match factories (M50/4/22) and the formation of women's sick benefit societies (M50/5/14-25)

 

In politics, she was a Liberal Unionist, being very much against Home Rule. (M50/2/4/5).

 

The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies was a member of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance and Mrs. Fawcett was one of its Vice Presidents. The letters of the First World War period show the difficulties of trying to keep an international organisation consisting of members of warring nations united in their common object of female suffrage (M50/2/22). Attempts of the "peace party" to make Jus Suffragii; the Alliance's publication, into a pacifist paper was strongly opposed by Madame de Witt Schlumberger of the French suffrage society, who had three sons at the front and one a prisoner (M50/2/22/122). An Austrian suggestion in September 1917 that all societies affiliated to the Alliance should unanimously express their desire for peace aroused a passionate response from Italy - "to the insidious proposals which came from the country of hangmen they answer sending a rousing cheer of enthusiasm to the glorious army which in this day renews the virtue of the Italian race ..." (M50/2/22/221). Letters from Mrs. Carrie Chapman Cart, President of the Alliance, include references to America's attitude to the War.

 

In Britain active suffrage work was suspended by the N.U.W.S.S. during the war, and women were encouraged to devote all their energies to the war effort (M50/2/9/8,9). The collection contains many pamphlets on the effect of the war on women as well as on the war in general, including some anti-war pamphlets (M50/2/9/10,43,44,49; M50/4/26/9-15, 18 ; M50/7/1-5)

 

Letters to Mrs. Fawcett relating to suffrage work in Britain, 1871-1915, (M50/2/1) are largely from and about the constitutional suffragists, but they contain several references to the militant suffragettes in 1906, 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1912. A letter from Margaret Ashton of the North of England Suffrage Society, 16 Jan. 1906, condemned the actions of "these few violent women who have injured the reputation of women politicians in Lancashire ... including Eva Gore Booth, two Miss Pankhursts and other seceders from the North of England Suffrage Soc. ..." (M50/2/1/225). There are no letters from the Pankhursts, but one from Eva Gore Booth of the Lancashire and Cheshire Women Textile and Other Workers' Representation Committee, c 24 Oct. 1906, objects to Mrs. Fawcett saying the women's protest in the House of Commons was natural for working women. Working women do not wish to be held accountable for upper class women who kick shriek, bite and spit. (M50/2/1/230) Mrs. Fawcett was entirely against violence to obtain her ends. She believed that "the crimes committed in Ireland by Home Rulers stopped Home Rule and if Women Suffragists embark on crime as propaganda they will stop Women's Suffrage." (M50/2/1/270).

 

There are several references to the struggle for women's suffrage in America (M50/2/1/77-82, 92, 96, 99, 102, 114, 114, 257, 258, 269; M50/2/22/1-5, 173, 202, 203; M50/2/10/10,11; M50/2/26/16; M50/2/36/15-17, 21, 81, 85-88), Australia (M50/2/1/20,202; M50/2/10/5,7,17; M50/2/22/203; M50/2/26/43; M50/2/36/25) and New Zealand (M50/2/1/118, 180, 186-189, 199, 200, 204, 212, 213; M50/2/4/25-27; M50/2/24/3; M50/2/26/32,36-40,44).

 

The goal of a lifetime's work was reached in 1918, and Mrs. Fawcett's contribution was given public recognition in 1925 when she was made a Dame of the British Empire.

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