{"id":3800,"date":"2011-07-03T11:23:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T11:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=3800"},"modified":"2011-07-03T11:28:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T11:28:31","slug":"millicent-fawcett-remembered-by-fawcett-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=3800","title":{"rendered":"Millicent Fawcett remembered by Fawcett Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To a brief but moving ceremony last night in Christchurch Gardens, Westminster, where the Fawcett Society, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/fawcettsociety.org.uk\/index.asp?PageID=12\">ceremony <\/a>organised by the South London Fawcett group, held its annual commemoration of the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/womenshistory.about.com\/od\/suffragists\/p\/fawcett.htm\">Millicent Fawcett<\/a>, laying a wreath at the foot of the suffrage ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>(The event has traditionally been held in Westminster Abbey, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westminster-abbey.org\/our-history\/people\/henry-and-millicent-fawcett\">Chapel of St George <\/a>is currently closed for repairs &#8211; we&#8217;ll be back there next year.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/group.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3803\" title=\"group\" src=\"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/group-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/group-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/group-1024x752.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Angela Mason, chair of the Fawcett Society (which is the direct and continuous <a href=\"http:\/\/fawcettsociety.org.uk\/index.asp?PageID=29\">descendent<\/a> of Millicent&#8217;s National Union of Women\u2019s Suffrage Societies), spoke of how Millicent would have been astonished at the fight women were still having to wage for economic and political equality. She said that after such a long struggle, it is clear that it is no longer enough to keep asking for equality, in parliament and in boardrooms &#8211; quotas have to be applied.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wreath.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3804\" title=\"Millicent Fawett wreath\" src=\"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wreath-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wreath-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wreath-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wreath.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To a brief but moving ceremony last night in Christchurch Gardens, Westminster, where the Fawcett Society, in a ceremony organised by the South London Fawcett group, held its annual commemoration of the work of Millicent Fawcett, laying a wreath at the foot of the suffrage ceremony. (The event has traditionally been held in Westminster Abbey, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-womens-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3800"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}