Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere

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The bronze statue portrays Dame Millicent at the age of 50, when she became president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). [2] The figure holds a banner reading COURAGE/ CALLS TO/ COURAGE/ EVERYWHERE, an extract from a speech Fawcett gave in 1920. She wears a walking suit, [3] typical attire of that period featuring an overcoat and a long dress. [4] The artist integrated the pattern and texture of the tweed fabric into the bronze of the suit. [3] The Fawcett Society lent a piece of Fawcett's jewellery to Wearing, who scanned the brooch and incorporated it into the statue's design. [5] The Met has said he should never have been a police officer, with a series of women making complaints against him, yet the force failed to spot the danger he posed. Gillian Wearing’s statue commemorating the life of Suffragist Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square Gareth Harris Millicent Fawcett, a suffragist leader once stated in a speech: 'Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.' When Sr Shaw died in 1976, in a tribute to her in the Messenger, it was noted that she never sought such tributes but living in the light of Faith, she always sought to be of service.

Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere is very current, touching on the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, the Women’s March, Trump’s presidency and Artificial Intelligence. Also included is Emmeline Pankhurst’s speech, Freedom or Death, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Millicent Fawcett’s influence in the suffrage movement is often overlooked in favour of the more radical suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Millicent was hugely important, concentrating on non violent rational persuasion. This book explains the work of this dogged suffragist.'

Courage alone is not enough

Criado Perez, Caroline; Cohen, Claire (10 May 2016). "Emma Watson is calling on Sadiq Khan to put a suffragette outside Parliament – and you can too". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 24 April 2018. The sculpture depicts Fawcett at her most influential, in 1907 in her fties, when she had become the president of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). At this point, Fawcett had been a part of the organisation for over ten years. She had campaigned tirelessly throughout her adult life, from gathering signatures for the first suffrage petition in 1866 to negotiating on women’s behalf with Members of Parliament. Gillian Wearing: Fawcett was chosen by [the British journalist and feminist activist] Caroline Criado Perez who led the successful campaign to put [the statue] in Parliament Square. But I am equally delighted she was chosen as she is the pivotal person who got the vote for women in 1918. At first I thought I wasn’t going to like this book, because it started out recounting a history of the feminist movement in the UK, which I found a little boring, probably also because I’m Australian and the various names of places and politicians went over my head. But that was only the beginning, and then Jeanette went on to make some really good points and observations about feminism.

a b Topping, Alexandra (24 April 2018). "First statue of a woman in Parliament Square unveiled". The Guardian . Retrieved 24 April 2018.The sculpture depicts Fawcett at her most influential, in 1907 at the age of sixty, when she had become the president of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). At this point, Fawcett had been a part of the organisation for over ten years. She had campaigned tirelessly throughout her adult life, from gathering signatures for the first suffrage petition in 1866, to negotiating on women’s behalf with Members of Parliament. One of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during the 1980s, Winterson was named as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Writers" in a promotion run jointly between the literary magazine Granta and the Book Marketing Council.

At this point it is worth considering the view of the Unity. As a Church we are one of the few denominations that has a worldwide legislative body, and by the 1950s the British Province set out to raise this question at the highest levels. In 1953, a report commissioned from the Unity found that only two Provinces had considered the issue of women in ministry at their synod: Britain and Suriname. The Board of the Northern American Province considered the decision to be one for each individual Province to make, and in principle it was 'desirable to maintain the longer established tradition of limiting the ordination in the Moravian Church to men and the governing bodies of all Provinces should be urged to adhere to this principle if possible.' The report concluded that in principle the ordination of women would be permissible. She was also, finally, a great human rights and civil rights campaigner. She once said of herself: "I cannot say I became a suffragist, I always was one." It is fitting that her statue will capture her in her prime, a woman in her 50s – the age at which women so often say they become invisible to society – gazing proudly and determinedly across at parliament. But the plinth will also include the images of 59 other suffrage campaigners, women and men, suffragists and suffragettes.

In the House of Commons only 34% of MPs are women, and while women of colour now make up 17% of the women MPs, which is in line with the population as a whole, there are huge geographic disparities. The House of Lords has just 27%, and only 2% of all peers are women of colour. In our devolved Parliaments and Assemblies there are no women of colour in the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales or the Northern Ireland Assembly. After 20 years of our Scottish Parliament 36% of MSPs are women, but there has never been a women of colour elected. thought this didn’t go far enough. So Suffragettes started getting arrested for minor law breaking, doing things like

Cohen, Claire (12 May 2016). "Victory! Mayor of London Sadiq Khan agrees to suffragette statue". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 24 April 2018. It's probably not a surprise to many that I identify as a feminist, and as I've aged, my passion has increased in that area. Winterson has gathered information about historical feminism and oppression of women, and she explains to us, sometimes quite bluntly, about how this is still impacting lives today. Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, said: “A major overhaul of police standards is desperately needed, but there has been a serious failure by Conservative ministers to take action. We owe it to the victims in this hideous case to take the strongest action on police standards.” With Newnham College celebrating 150 years of women’s education, excellence and inclusion, and as a Newnham alumna myself, I was keen to talk to the Principal of the College what the 150th Anniversary means for women. The points that Alison made gave me plenty to think about, and our audience too. Here is a taste of the topics we discussed… Having a room of one’s own Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected writings invites the reader to delve into the life and passions of this great suffragist leader. Millicent Fawcett paved the way for women to take their place in public life, that’s why I’m so proud that in 2018, her sculpture was unveiled in London, becoming Parliament Square’s first-ever statue of a woman. The statue depicts Millicent holding a banner bearing the powerful quote, “Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere”. This book explores important aspects of the rich and too-often untold history of women’s rights, including the origins of that inspirational quote.'Diminutive in scale, Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere by Gillian Wearing, is a bronze maquette (small working model) for a larger sculpture of the suffragist and feminist leader, Millicent Fawcett, that was commissioned in 2017 for Parliament Square. In Fawcett’s hands is a banner with the words ‘Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere’ referencing words she wrote in 1913 after the death of Emily Wilding Davison, the British Suffragette who fought for equal voting rights for women. In 2018, Wearing commented on the subject of her sculpture: This is a vital collection of the vital speeches of a vital person. You need to read this to understand the history of Millicent Fawcett and if you don’t understand the history of Millicent Fawcett you don’t understand one of the most important developments in modern civilisation.' stars for a Jeanette Winterson book... I still can't believe it! She's one of my favorite writers (among the top 3, I mean, maybe even top 1) But I had high expectations for this little nonfiction book and I was a bit disappointed. I thought it was beautifully written, as is usual with her, but I found it a bit superficial, basic and slightly tone down for my taste, which was a surprise as I was expecting something really revolutionary and full of spite for anyone with a Y chromosome. I mean, this is Jeanette Winterson whom we're talking about and she's never hidden her thoughts about such gender... and I love her wholeheartedly because of it. The Millicent Fawcett statue is not just a historical marker, but also a real time stark reminder that today we are all still having to question why, on so many levels, women in our society are so under represented at every level. Instead, she suggests that Fawcett, a patriotic pro-war imperialist, was making a connection between Davison’s “self-sacrifice” for the cause of “freedom” and the deaths of so many men during the first world war. Terras said: “In the context of 1920, when lots of young people had just lost their lives, she writes that giving up your life for something you believe in is courageous.”