Emily Davies and the Mid-Victorian Women's Movement

Emily Davies was a central figure in the mid-Victorian women''s movement. Formidably intelligent, fiercely determined, and an indefatigable campaigner and organiser, the socially and politically conservative Davies directed the first campaign for female suffrage in 1866-7. She was one of the first women elected to public office in 1870, campaigned successfully for the admission of girls to school ...