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PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 24/10/2024
Adorned with ablue plaque, 2 Gower Street, London, is a place of striking significance forBritish political history. When Tessa Blackstone moved in during the late 1980s,she was delighted to discover that a previous tenant had been Millicent GarrettFawcett. Millicentdedicated her life to securing the right to vote for women. She led thesuffragists, who were distinct from the more well-known suffragettes becausethey campaigned within the law and disapproved of violence. But Tessa struggledto find a recent biography of this impressive woman and so began her detailedresearch into uncovering Millicent's life story. Growing up in afamily of ten children in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Millicent and her sisterschallenged Victorian views about the role of women. Getting married at twentydid not deter her from becoming a writer and feminist campaigner. Her husband,Henry Fawcett, a blind academic and Liberal politician, shared her views andencouraged her. Devastated by his early death, her grit and determination kepther going. Millicent was aleader who inspired her followers by her capacity to carry on in spite ofprejudiced rebuttals and political deception. She was a trooper and her unusualstory needs to be read by anyone interested in the lives of women and in thehistory of our democracy and equal rights.Binding: Hardback