Fawcett, Millicent

has biography | a une biographie: English suffragist and writer in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During the Second Boer War, Fawcett headed the Fawcett Commission, alongside Anne Knox, Jane Waterston, Ella Scarlet, Katherine Brereton and Lucy Deane, which was sent by the government on a four-month tour in the summer of 1901 to investigate the conditions of British concentration camps in South Africa, in response to a prior independent investigation carried out by Emily Hobhouse which had been highly critical of the camps.
was born | est né: 11 June 1847
died in | est mort par: 5 August 1929
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia - Millicent Fawcett; Wikipedia - Second Boer War concentration camps; Vron Ware, 'All the rage: decolonizing the history of the British women's suffrage movement', Cultural Studies, 34, 4 (2020) 521-545; Gillian Murphy, 'Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Lucy Deane and the Boer War', LSE (2016); LSE Archives - Papers of Millicent Garrett Fawcett

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Statue of Millicent Fawcett, Parliament Square