Autograph Letter signed, to Lady Lockyer.

Bookseller Notes

Fawcett writes to 'My dear Lady Lockyer' (ne Thomazine Mary Browne) to regretfully decline a lunch invitation that week, because she is already committed to attend a Women's Suffrage meeting in High Wycombe on the same day. Lady Lockyer, the wife of astronomer Norman Lockyer, was herself a significant figure and pioneering feminist: following her own studies in natural philosophy and astronomy at Queen's College, and a period as a maths tutor, she helped found (along with her sister Annie) College Hall as the first hall of residence for women at University College London. She was a supporter of women's suffrage throughout her life, and intimately involved in that movement including the organisation of suffrage marches with Fawcett's sister, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, in 1910.