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Edith 'Biddy' Lanchester (28 July 1871 – 26 March 1966) was an English socialist, feminist and suffragette. She became well known in 1895 when her family had her incarcerated in an asylum for planning to live with her lover, who was an Irish, working-class labourer.
30 de nov. de 2020 · Edith Lanchester was a headstrong feminist and socialist. She believed in women’s suffrage and pursued it wholeheartedly. This tickled her family’s concern, but what really confirmed their distress was when Edith announced she intended to live with her lover, Shamus Sullivan, out of wedlock.
Edith Lanchester o el precio de la libertad. En la época victoriana, llena de convencionalismos sociales, una mujer proveniente de una familia acomodada desafió los preceptos sociales, se involucró en la lucha obrera y sufragista y rehusó unirse en matrimonio con su compañero.
10 de oct. de 2021 · In the autumn of 1895 Edith Lanchester was 24. Born into a middle-class family, she had studied at the Birkbeck Institute and worked as a City clerk. She was also already a seasoned socialist campaigner; her ringing voice, it was said, could command the attention of the most hostile of crowds.
5 de feb. de 2018 · Many people know of the famous Catford born actress Elsa Lanchester, but what do you know of her socialist and feminist mother, Edith? Edith ‘Biddy’ Lanchester was born in Hove, Sussex on 28 July 1871.
16 de dic. de 2021 · By the autumn of 1895, Edith Lanchester was 24. Born into a prosperous middle-class family, she had studied at London University and Birkbeck and was earning her own living as a clerk at the Cardiff (New South Wales) Gold Mining Company. She was also was already a seasoned socialist campaigner whose ringing voice, it was….
One of these New Women was Edith Lanchester, who was socially and politically radical but was briefly incarcerated in an asylum by her father for being ‘over-educated’. The LMI/Birkbeck was welcoming not only to female students but also to progressive, early feminists.
