Voices from History: East London Suffragettes

Several of these societies combined to form the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies in 1897, led by the formidable Millicent Fawcett.
When Millicent was a teenager, her older sister, Elizabeth Garrett, moved to London to study medicine, going on to be Britain’s first qualified woman doctor. Millicent’s visits to London to stay with Elizabeth brought her into contact with people with radical political views, including John Stuart Mill and her future husband Henry Fawcett, Liberal MP for Brighton.
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