Autograph Letter signed, to Lady Lockyer.

Fawcett (Millicent Garrett)

Autograph Letter signed, to Lady Lockyer.

Description: written in black ink on paper headed to her Gower Street address, p. [1], foolscap 8vo, original horizontal fold, very good condition

Publication Details: n.d. ['March 16', circa 1910?]

Notes: Fawcett writes to 'My dear Lady Lockyer' (née 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 supporte...moreFawcett writes to 'My dear Lady Lockyer' (née 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. HIDE

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