Tessa Blackstone | Millicent Garrett Fawcett: The Fight for Votes for Women
Recorded: Thu 24 Apr 2025
Duration: 1 hr
Tessa Blackstone | Millicent Garrett Fawcett: The Fight for Votes for Women
Spring 2025 - audio only
Labour member of the House of Lords and former minister for education, Tessa Blackstone joins us to share how she came to write her definitive new biography of Millicent Garrett Fawcett, the undaunted campaigner who dedicated her life to securing the right to vote for women. She led the suffragists, who were distinct from the more well-known suffragettes because they campaigned within the law and disapproved of violence. But Tessa struggled to find a recent biography of this impressive woman and so began her detailed research into uncovering Millicent’s life story.
Come and hear what Tessa has uncovered about this extraordinary activist, campaigner and co-founder of Newnham College, who changed Britain’s political landscape forever.
In conversation with Helen McCarthy
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