Emily Davies
| Sarah Emily Davies | |
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Emily Davies portrait by Rudolph Lehmann, 1880
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| Born |
22 April 1830 Carlton Crescent, Southampton |
| Died | 13 July 1921 (aged 91) |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | founder Girton College, Cambridge |
Sarah Emily Davies (22 April 1830 – 13 July 1921) was an English feminist, suffragist and a pioneering campaigner for women's rights to university access. She is principally remembered as being the co-founder and an early Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge University, the first college in England to educate women.
Davies was born in Carlton Crescent, Southampton, England to an evangelical clergyman and a teacher, although she spent most of her youth in Gateshead, where her father, John D. Davies, was rector.
Davies had been tempted to train in medicine and wrote the article "Female Physicians" for the feminist publication, the English Woman's Journal in 1861, and "Medicine as a Profession for Women" in 1862. She also "greatly encouraged" her friend Elizabeth Garett in her medical studies.
In 1862, after the death of her father, Davies moved to London, where she edited the English Woman's Journal, and became friends with women's rights advocates Barbara Bodichon, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and her younger sister Millicent Fawcett. Davies became a founder member of a women's discussion group, the Kensington Society along with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Barbara Bodichon, Dorothea Beale and Francis Mary Buss who, together, unsuccessfully petitioned Parliament to grant women voting rights.
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