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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
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:
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 ...
Sisterwrite was Britain's first feminist bookshop. [1] The bookshop, which opened in 1978, was run as a collective. [2] [3] [4] Sisterwrite was located at 190 Upper Street, in the Islington district of north London. [4] [5] Mary Coghill and Kay Stirling invited Lynn Alderson to join them in opening a women's bookshop. [6]
John Grey, Butler's father, portrait by George Patten. Josephine Grey was born on 13 April 1828 at Milfield, Northumberland.She was the fourth daughter and seventh child of Hannah (née Annett) and John Grey, a land agent and agricultural expert, [2] [3] [a] who was a cousin of the reformist British Prime Minister, Lord Grey. [5]
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.
On their return to Sussex, they lived openly together at Brown's and had two more children. After the last was born in 1833, Anne fell ill with tuberculosis. Smith leased 9 Pelham Crescent, Hastings, which faced the sea, whose healthy properties were highly regarded at the time. A local woman, Hannah Walker, was employed to look after the children.