![]() Wendy Moore’s riveting new book focuses on two female doctors: Fawcett’s rebellious niece Louisa Garrett Anderson and her lifetime partner, Flora Murray. ![]() Pankhurst’s two younger daughters deserted her cause (she packed one of them off to Australia), while Fawcett’s sister and niece, both medical pioneers, joined the ranks of her rival’s militant suffragette movement. ![]() The leaders of the two main campaigns for female suffrage in England, Emmeline Pankhurst and Millicent Fawcett, fundamentally disagreed about the value of using violent means to achieve political ends and encountered dissension even within their own families. Men disparagingly spoke of ‘the woman question’ as if the other half of the population were all of one mind, but that was no more the case in the early 20th century than it is now: it was perfectly possible for independent women to be at odds not only with men but also with each other. ![]() When Virginia Woolf demanded a room of one’s own, she knew that women already possessed minds of their own. ![]()
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