Sarah Emily Davies was an English feminist and suffragist, and a pioneering campaigner for women's rights to university access.
15 Facts About Emily Davies
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Emily Davies is remembered above all as a co-founder and an early Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, the first university college in England to educate women.
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Emily Davies wrote the article "Female Physicians" for the feminist English Woman's Journal in May 1860, and "Medicine as a Profession for Women" in 1862.
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Emily Davies became a founding member of a women's discussion group, the Kensington Society, along with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Barbara Bodichon, Dorothea Beale and Frances Mary Buss, who together petitioned Parliament to grant women voting rights, to no avail.
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Emily Davies began campaigning for women's rights to further education, degrees and teaching qualifications.
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Emily Davies was active on the London School Board and in the Schools Inquiry Commission, and instrumental in obtaining the admission of girls to official secondary-school examinations.
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Emily Davies went on to advocate the admission of women to the Universities of London, Oxford and Cambridge.
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Emily Davies became involved in the suffrage movement, which centred on a woman's right to vote.
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In 1869, Emily Davies led the campaign to found Britain's first women's college, with the support of Frances Buss, Dorothea Beale and Barbara Bodichon.
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Emily Davies pressed for a curriculum equivalent to those offered to men of the time.
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The Senate rejecting her proposal to let women officially sit for the papers, but Emily Davies continued to train students for the Cambridge Tripos exams on an unofficial basis.
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Emily Davies persistent fight for equal education for women was instrumental in the founding in 1875 of Newnham College, which would be led by Anne Jemima Clough.
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In June 1901, Emily Davies received an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Glasgow.
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Emily Davies was known for opposing the militant and violent methods used by the Suffragette part of the women's suffrage movement, led by the Pankhursts.
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Emily Davies died at home in Belsize Park, Hampstead, London, on 13 July 1921 aged 91.