English social reformer. Millicent Garrett Fawcett (FAH-set) was the fifth daughter among the ten children of Newson Garrett, a self-made wealthy corn and coal merchant and shipowner, and Louisa Dunnell. Her mother was deeply religious and had less influence on her than her father. Millicent attended a school run by the aunt of the poet Robert Browning at Blackheath until she was fifteen. An apocryphal story recounted by Ray Strachey in her history of woman suffrage, The Cause (1928), tells how one night, after Millicent, her sister Elizabeth, and their friend Emily Davis had discussed what each might accomplish, Emily responded, I must devote myself to securing higher education, while you open the medical profession to women. After these things are done, we must see about getting the vote.… You are younger than we are Milli, so you must attend to that.
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