Millicent Fawcett, English academic and activist (died 1929)

Millicent Fawcett

English politician, writer, and activist (1847–1929)

Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett 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), explaining, "I cannot say…