by [Women Suffrage], Millicent Fawcett
Millicent Garrett Fawcett. British feminist, suffrage advocate, and labor reformer. Very early and large portrait of labor activist Millicent Fawcett who improved conditions for women in manufacturing. She is shows as a young woman, dressed all in black and seated with a small book in hand. 10 x 7" photograph, mounted on 16.5 x 12" board. With 4 large unbound sheets on Fawcett's biography and life's work. Autograph facsimile below photograph. "Her main object of making women feel the responsibility of their existence as a means of making them better and happier, and so the world better and happier, causes her to take a great interest in Women's education." Millicent Garrett Fawcett supported the Married Women's Property Act and was very active in the woman's suffrage movement. She campaigned for women's suffrage through legal change and led Britain's largest women's rights association, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), from 1897-1919. "If there be those who idealise the real, and maintain that a woman should be but a doll, there are others who realizes the ideal of women to no small extent in Mrs. Fawcett, and see in her very existence the hopeless refutation of her detractor's argument." "Walery, Photographer to the Queen / 164 Regent Street, London" printed on mat below photograph. Walery was the byline used by a father and son team of photographers, from 1884-1898. Printed sheets of biographical information have some foxing, toning, and wear around edges. Library stamp in upper left corner of photo board. In very good condition.
(Inventory #: 17185)