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Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and her works as important influences. During her brief career she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative , a history of the French Revolution , a conduct book , and a children's book.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917) – physician, feminist, first dean of a British medical school, first female mayor, and magistrate in Britain; Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873–1943) – Chief Surgeon of Women's Hospital Corps, Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine, jailed for her suffragist activities
1978: Sisterwrite, Britain's first feminist bookshop, [173] opened in 1978; it was run as a collective. [174] [175] [176] 1978: Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent (OWAAD), founded 1978; was a feminist umbrella collective organising under a political black identity [177] 1979: The Kennel Club began admitting women members in 1979 ...
Feminist; first woman in Britain to officially train racehorses. [100] 1875–1939: Diane Nash: ... Philosopher at the City University of New York [124] 1940–1999:
When the Pankhursts decided to stop the militancy at the start of the war, and enthusiastically support the war effort, the movement split and their leadership role ended. Suffrage did come four years later, but the feminist movement in Britain permanently abandoned the militant tactics that had made the suffragettes famous. [97]
This group became one of the first organised women's movements in Britain. They pursued many causes vigorously, including their Married Women's Property Committee. In 1854, she published Brief Summary of the Laws of England concerning Women , [ 13 ] which helped to promote the passage of the Married Women's Property Act 1882 .
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE (née Garrett; 11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) 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 National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), [1] explaining, "I cannot say I became a suffragist.
Suffragettes in Great Britain and Ireland orchestrated a bombing and arson campaign between the years 1912 and 1914. The campaign was instigated by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), and was a part of their wider campaign for women's suffrage.