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15 lug 2024 · In the American context, the women’s movement of the second half of the nineteenth century emerged directly from this abolitionist engagement, the question being whether it was proper for women to engage publicly in politics. In Britain prior to the late 1850s, the answer was a clear ‘no’.
9 lug 2024 · Emily Davies was an English pioneer in the movement to secure university education for women and the chief founder of Girton College, Cambridge. She was responsible for University College, London, admitting women to classes in 1870 for the first time. Educated at home, Davies joined the campaign.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 lug 2024 · Despite the pioneering work of Emily Davies and Barbara Boddichon in the 1860s, and their founding of Girton College (1869), Cambridge got left behind in the march towards educational equality for women.
4 giorni fa · Emily Davies is a reporter covering crime and criminal justice in Washington, D.C. She started at The Washington Post as an intern in June 2019.
3 giorni fa · In 1866, cooperating with Emily Davies, Bodichon produced a scheme to extend university education to women. The first small experiment in this, at Hitchin, developed into Girton College, Cambridge, to which Bodichon gave liberally of her time and money.
21 lug 2024 · Two of its members – Barbara Bodichon and Emily Davies – went on to found Girton, the first women’s college at Cambridge. Another society (again including Barbara) led the overlooked first stage of the campaign for women’s suffrage.
1 giorno fa · Emily Davies (1830–1921) – co-founder of Kensington Society and Britain's first women's college, Girton College, Cambridge University; Emily Wilding Davison (1872–1913) – militant activist, key member of the WSPU, died in a protest action at a racetrack
