Key People in Women's Suffrage 1860-1930 Edexcel AS History

• Born into a radical, free-thinking family.
• Her parents never  married - they didn't see the point.
• Father was a radical MP who supported women's rights.

She received £300 a year from her parents and this enabled her to throw herself into campaigning for women's rights. She:

• Set up a progressive school in London that was co-ed, not connected to any particular religious group and took children from a range of different backgrounds.
• Worked with Caroline Norton on the campaign that resulted in the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act.
• Formed the first Women's Suffrage Committee in 1866, and toured the country holding meetings, converting many women to the cause of female suffrage.
• Joined with Emily Davis in helping to raise funds for the first women's college (Girton) in Cambridge.

• Born into a wealthy landowning family in Northumberland.
• Grew up in a family with strong views about the wrongs of inequality and injustice and the need for social reform. She:
• Worked with Anne Jemima Clough to establish educational courses for women and in 1867 was appointed president of the North England Council for the Higher Education of Women.
• Became involved, in1868, in a campaign to persuade Cambridge Uni to allow women to be University students.
• Worked as a leader of the Ladies' National Association from 1869, which successfully campaigned for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
• Became involved in the campaign against child prostitution, which resulted in the 1885 Criminal Amendment Act that raised the age of consent from thirteen to sixteen.
• Supported the National Union of Suffrage Societies that campaigned peacefully for female suffrage.