MILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT

The statue is located in Parliament Square, and is one of the 12 statues surrounding the square.

The statue shows Dame Millicent Fawcett (1847-1929), one of the leaders of the suffragist movement in Britain, and a fighter for women’s rights. Following her activity in the organization NUWSS (National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies) women were granted the right to vote in 1918.

The bronze sculpture was made in 2018 by Gillian Wearing
The statue shows Millicent Fawcett at the age of 50 (1897), at the time of her appointment as NUWSS president, holding a cloth banner in her hand that reads:
COURAGE CALLS TO COURAGE EVERYWHERE
which is a quote from a speech she gave in 1920

The statue was photographed on the same day Click for a larger image

Around the base of the statue are pictures of 55 people (men and women) who supported the women’s rights movement.

In the following pictures you can see some of the characters:
from left to right:

Priscilla Bright McLaren 1815-1906 \ Eva McLaren 1852/3-1921 (inset), Frances Power Cobbe 1822-1904, Agnes Pochin 1825-1908, Lydia Becker 1827-1890
פריסילה ברייט מקלארן 1815-1906 \ אווה מקלארן 1852/3-1921 (מוכנס), פרנסס פאוור קוב 1822-1904, אגנס פוצ’ין 1825-1908, לידיה בקר 1827-1890
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Anna Haslam 1829-1922, Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy 1833-1918, Jessie Craigen 1835-1899, Helen Blackburn 1842-1903
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Charlotte Despard 1844-1939, Sarah Reddish 1850-1928, Dora Montefiore 1851-1933, Catherine Courtauld Osler 1854-1924, Isabella Ford 1855-1924
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Henrietta Franklin 1866-1964, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence 1867-1954 \ Frederick Pethick-Lawrence 1871-1961, Esther Roper 1868-1938 \ Eva Gore-Booth 1870-1926, Ada Nield Chew 1870-1945, Chrystal Macmillan 1872-1937, Eleanor Rathbone 1872-1946, Emily Wilding Davison 1872-1913, Louisa Garrett Anderson 1873-1943, Julia Scurr 1871-1927, Annot Robinson 1874-1925, Rosa May Billinghurst 1875-1953, Rev. Claude Hinscliff 1875-1964, Edith How-Martyn 1875-1954
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Margaret Ashton 1856-1937, Mary Lowndes 1856-1929, Lady Frances Balfour 1858-1931, The Pankhursts \ Emmeline 1858-1928 Sylvia 1882-1960 Christabel 1880-1958 Adela 1885-1961, Maud Lady Selborne 1858-1950, Minnie Lansbury 1889-1992 (sic) \ George Lansbury 1859-1940, Edith Mansell-Moullin 1859-1941, Minnie Baldock 1864-1954, Elsie Inglis 1864-1917, Nessie Stewart-Brown 1864-1958, Helena Swanwick 1864-1939, Laurence Housman 1865-1959, Mrs P. L. Roy 1865-unknown
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Sophia Duleep Singh 1876-1948, Agnes Maude Royden 1876-1956, Teresa Billington Greig 1877-1964, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington 1877-1946, Flora Drummond 1878-1949, Annie Kenney 1879-1953, Mary Macarthur 1880-1921, Catherine Marshall 1880-1961, Mary Gawthorpe 1881-1973, Dame Margery Irene Corbett Ashby 1882-1981, Margaret Haig Thomas, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda 1883-1958, Ray Strachey 1887-1940, Ellen Wilkinson 1891-1947
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