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Significant Sisters

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by Margaret Forster


  Bruce, Henry, 184

  Buffalo Medical Journal, 70

  Buss, Frances Mary, 145, 146, 149, 161, 211

  Butler. Arthur, 176

  Butler, Charles, 176, 188, 190, 197

  Butler, Eva, 176–7, 197, 201

  Butler, George, 6, 7, 173–83, 188–97, 199–200, 226

  Butler, George (son), 174, 188, 197–8

  Butler, Hatty, 182

  Butler, Josephine, 3, 160, 169–202, 234, 245; attitude to men, 4; marriage, 6, 7, 174–5, 189–90, 196–7, 199–200; appearance, 7–8; childhood, 9, 171–2; feminism, 4, 170; campaign against Contagious Diseases Acts, 170–1, 181–93, 195, 198–201; education, 172; religious crisis, 173; and the death of her daughter, 176–7, 201, 261; work with prostitutes, 177–9; and the educational reform movement, 179–80; ill-health, 180, 191; The Constitution Violated, 184–5; The New Era, 185–6; European campaign, 190–1; campaign against child prostitution, 193–5; and her husband’s death, 195–6; last years, 197–8; and women’s suffrage, 200–1

  Butler, Stanley, 175, 176, 190, 192, 197, 198

  Byron, Lady Noel, 76, 79, 84, 90

  Cady, Judge Daniel, 8–9, 209–11, 213, 216, 218, 228, 234–5

  Cady, Eleazor, 209, 210

  Cady, Margaret, 209

  Cady (Bayard), Tryphenia, 211

  Call, 252

  Cambridge Local Examinations, 145–6, 147, 148, 149

  Cambridge University, 139, 145–6, 151, 152, 155–8

  Camden School, 161

  Canada, 59, 212, 269, 314

  Cardwell, Sir Edward, 184

  Carlile, Richard, 243

  Carlyle, Jane, 43

  Carnegie Steel Company, 294

  Castleton Medical College, 68

  Catt, Carrie Chapman, 233, 273

  Chatham, 191–2

  Cheltenham, 176, 177, 197

  Cheltenham Boys’ College, 175–6

  Cheltenham Ladies’ College, 146

  Chicago, 288, 309, 314

  Chichester, 137, 138

  children: Infant Custody Act, 35–6, 39–40, 51; child prostitution, 193–5

  China, 139, 140, 272–3

  Christian Socialism, 173

  Church of England, 196

  Cincinnati, 60

  Clarke, Anne, 121

  Clarke, Mary, 98–9

  Claverack, 247

  Cleveland, 236–7

  Clifton College, 188

  Clough, Anne Jemima, 162

  Cobbe, Frances Power, 133

  Coke, Sir Edward, 172

  Colchester by-election (1872), 186, 187

  Coleridge, Mrs, 42

  Colorado, female suffrage, 232

  Colton, Joseph, 314

  Committee on Maternal Health, 267–8

  Comstock, Anthony, 254, 261, 307

  Comstock laws, 252, 253, 254, 256–7, 261, 262, 263, 265

  Condum Dr, 242

  Contagious Diseases Acts, 3, 170–1, 181–93, 195, 198–201

  contraception, see, birth control

  Convent of the Sisters of Charity, Paris, 107

  Cook, Miss (Girton student), 156

  Cooper, Daniel, 181, 182

  Coming, 245–7

  Cowper, Lady, 18

  Cranworth, Lord Chancellor, 47

  Crimean War, 96, 108–11, 112, 119, 124, 126

  Criminal Law Amendment Act (1885), 195

  Crow family, 138

  Crow, Jane, 138, 139, 143

  custody: Infant Custody Act, 35–6, 39–40, 51

  Daily News, 181, 182

  Daily Telegraph, 243

  Davenport Hill, Matthew, 47

  Davies, Emily, 2–3, 7, 133–65, 172, 180; appearance, 8; relations with her mother, 9; childhood, 136–8; education, 138; interest in women’s employment, 141–2; moves to London, 143–4; and the reform of women’s education, 144–8, 160–2; On Secondary Instruction as Relating to Girls, 147; founds women’s college, 149–55; founds Girton College, 155–8; interest in women’s suffrage, 158–9; death, 159; The Higher Education of Women, 161; “Women in the Universities of England and Scotland”, 162; attitude to feminism, 163

  Davies, Henry, 139–40

  Davies, Jane, 138, 139

  Davies, Rev. John, 139–40, 143

  Davies, Llewelyn, 7, 139–40, 141, 142, 144

  Davies, Mary, 136–8, 140, 143, 145, 157, 158

  Davies, Mary Llewelyn, 145

  Davies, William, 138, 139, 140

  de la Beche, Sir Henry, 125

  de Manneville, Mrs, 35

  Declaration of Independence, 220

  Declaration of Sentiments, 220, 222

  Dennet, Mary Ware, 261

  Desmarres, oculist, 74

  Dickens, Charles, 46

  Dickinson, John, 66–7

  Dickson, Dr Robert, 267–8

  Dilston, 171, 172, 174

  Disraeli, Benjamin, 22, 190

  divorce: need for law reform, 16, 29–31; change in law, 31–2, 51

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 296

  “double standard”, 169–70, 198–9

  Dowse, Dr Thomas, 116

  Drysdale, Charles, 244, 258

  Dufferin, Lord, 19

  Durham University, 173–4

  Eckstein, Emmy, 315

  education: need for reform, 133–6, 160–2; reform of women’s education, 144–8; Emily Davies’s women’s college, 149–55; foundation of Girton College, 155–8; girls’ attitudes to higher education, 164; Josephine Butler and, 179–80

  Education Act (1870), 164

  Ellis, Havelock, 258–9

  Embley, Park, 97, 118, 120, 121

  Emma Goldman Brigade, 317

  Endowed Schools Act, 148

  Englishwoman’s Journal, 141, 143

  Equal Rights Association, 230

  Ewart Park, 197–8

  Faithful, Emily, 163

  fathers: Infant Custody Act, 35–6, 39–40, 51

  Fearon, Mr (educ. Inspector), 135

  Fedya, 290–1, 292, 293, 297

  Female Physiology, 65

  First World War, 313

  Fitch, Joshua, 148

  Fliedner, Pastor Theodore, 105

  Florence, 96–7, 98

  Fortnightly Review, 160

  Frampton Court, 27–8

  France, 71–3, 82, 191, 233, 234, 253–4

  free love, 290–1, 303

  Freiheit, 288, 289

  Freschi, Judge, 265

  Freud, Sigmund, 300

  Frick, Henry Clay, 294–5, 296–7

  Froude, J. A., 173

  Fry, Elizabeth, 128

  Gage, Matilda, 236

  Gandhi, Mahatma, 274

  Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 143

  Garrett, Elizabeth, 81, 144, 162; medical education, 80, 87, 143; friendship with Emily Davies, 138, 140, 141; and women’s suffrage, 158; on girls’ health education, 161

  Garrison, Lloyd, 59, 215

  Gaskell, Mrs, 121

  Gateshead, 137–8, 140, 141, 143

  General Council of Medical Education and Registration, 87

  Geneva, Switzerland, 98, 138, 191, 268

  Geneva Gazette, 70

  Geneva Medical College, 68–70, 72

  George, Henry, 247

  Germany, 105–7, 185–6, 259, 269, 313, 314

  Gibson, Miss, 152

  Giffard, Mr (educ. Inspector), 134–5

  Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 254

  Girton College, Cambridge, 9, 136, 155–8, 159, 162, 163–4

  Gladstone, William Ewart, 50, 116, 169, 190, 193

  Glasgow, 253

  Godwin, William, 36

  Goldman, Abraham, 281–2, 283–4, 302

  Goldman, Emma, 3, 4, 11, 279–317; attitude to men, 4–5, 6; marriage, 7, 285–7; appearance, 8, 314–15; relations with her parents, 9, 281–4; and the birth control movement, 252; attitude to feminism, 4–5, 280–1, 306–8, 316–17; childhood, 281–2; goes to America, 283–4; view of marriage and sex, 283, 285, 311; anarchism, 287–90, 293–301,
305, 310–11; affair with Johan Most, 289, 291–2, 294; and Sasha Berkman, 289, 290–7, 308–9; and free love, 290–1, 303; need for children, 292–3, 299; affair with Ed Brady, 297–303, 305–6; in Vienna, 300; and Mother Earth, 307–9; affair with Reitman, 309–10, 311–13; Anarchism and Other Essays, 311; returns to Russia, 313; My Two Years in Russia, 313; death, 314

  Goldman, Taube, 282

  Governesses Benevolent Institution, 144–5

  Graefenberg, Dr Ernst, 271

  Grantley, Fletcher Norton, 3rd Lord, 18–19, 20, 22–3, 29, 33, 38–9, 49

  Granville, Lord, 147

  Greenhill, Mrs, 34

  Greenwich Hospital estates, 171–2

  Greie, Johanna, 287–8

  Grey, Earl, 171

  Grey, Hannah, 171

  Grey, Hatty, 172, 177

  Grey, John, 171–3, 174

  Grimké, Angelina, 208

  Grimké, Sarah, 208

  Guardianship Act (1973), 51

  Guildford, 22–3

  Hampton Court, 17, 31–2, 33

  Hansard, 181

  Harrow School, 155, 196–7

  Harvard Medical School, 86

  Hastings, 83, 85

  Hastings-on-Hudson, 250, 251

  Hayward, Abraham, 22, 33–4

  Haywood, Bill, 252, 253

  Heiner, Frank, 315

  Henderson, Kentucky, 62

  Herbert, Sidney, 102, 103, 108, 110, 119, 122, 125

  Herbert, Mrs, 126

  Heritage, Mrs, 184

  Hicks, Harriet, 188

  Higgins, Anne, 246–7

  Higgins, Michael, 246–8

  Highgate Workhouse Infirmary, 116

  Hill, Octavia, 146

  Hitchin, 152–5, 163

  Holland, 259–60, 264

  Home and Colonial Training Scheme, 134

  Hospitals’ Association, 122–3

  Hugo, Victor, 317

  Hunt, Harriot K., 86

  Hunt, Jane, 220

  Hunt, William Holman, 143

  Huxley, T. H., 160

  India, 118, 197, 270

  Infant Custody Act (1839), 38, 39–40, 51

  Institute for Sick Gentlewomen in Distressed Circumstances, 107–8

  Institution of Deaconesses, Kaiserworth, 105–7

  International Birth Control Conference, Sixth, New York (1925), 268

  International Society against State Regulated Vice, 191

  Isle of Wight, 137

  Italy, 97, 98, 177, 195

  Jackson, Dr, 68

  Jacobs, Dr Aletta, 260, 268

  Jarrett, Rebecca, 194–5

  Jefferson Medical College, 68

  Jeffries, Mary, 188

  Jex-Blake, Sophia, 87

  Johnstown, 209, 211, 216

  Jones, Agnes, 116

  Jowett, Benjamin, 175

  Kaiserworth, 105–7

  Kemble, Fanny, 22

  Kentucky, 62

  Kershner, Jacob, 285–7

  Kilmun, 85

  Kings Cross Hospital, 108

  Knowlton, Charles, 243–4

  Kollontai, Alexandra, 313, 314

  Königsberg, 283

  Kovno, 281

  Kropotkin, Peter, 304

  Labour Five, 251

  Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society, 59

  Ladies’ Association, 182, 187–8, 197

  Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 163–4

  Lancet, 65

  Langham Place set, 141–2, 144

  Lansdowne House, 36

  law: Infant Custody Act, 35–6, 39–40, 51; and married women, 29, 31, 34, 49; marriage reform, 47–8, 49–52, repeal of Contagious Diseases Acts, 170–1, 181–93, 195, 198–201; Comstock laws used against birth control movement, 252, 253, 254, 256–7, 261, 263, 265

  Lea Hurst, 97, 116, 118

  Leigh-Smith, Annie, 140, 141

  Leigh-Smith, Barbara, see Bodichon, Barbara

  Lenin, Nikolai, 313

  Lepsius, Karl Richard, 125

  Liberal Party, 191

  Liddell, Justice, 187

  Lily, 223

  Lind, Jenny, 143

  Little Review, 310

  Liverpool, 103, 170, 179, 188, 191, 258

  Liverpool College for Boys, 177, 192

  Loch Rannoch, 33

  Lomax, Mary, 179

  London National Society for Women’s Suffrage, 94–5, 159

  London School of Medicine for Women, 57

  London University, 137, 144, 149, 158

  Louis, Pierre, 71–2

  Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 273

  Lumsden, Louisa, 152, 154, 156

  Lyttelton, Lord, 147

  Lytton, Bulwer, 21–2

  McClintock, Mary Ann, 219–20, 222

  MacGuire, Willie, 253

  McKinley, President, 304–5

  Malthus, Thomas, 242

  Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, 249

  Manning, Cardinal, 127

  Manning, Mrs, 152

  marriage: Infant Custody Act, 35–6, 39–40, 51; legal reforms, 47–8, 49–52; Married Women’s Property acts, 47, 48, 51, 223

  Married Women’s Property Act (Britain, 1882), 47, 48, 51

  Married Women’s Property Bill (USA, 1848), 223

  Martineau, Harriet, 16, 95, 181, 182, 236–7, 329

  La Maternité, 71–3

  Matisse, Henri, 253

  Maudsley, Dr, 160–1

  Maurice, F. D., 144–5

  Mayflower, 207

  medicine: Elizabeth Blackwell and, 55, 57, 63–82; women’s health care, 64–6; women as doctors, 86–90; see also nursing

  Melbourne, Lord, 18, 19–20, 22, 28–32, 39, 45, 46

  Mensinga diaphragm, 259–60, 269

  Mensinga, Dr Wilhelm, 259–60

  Menzies, Lady Grace, 33, 37

  Menzies, Sir Neil, 37

  Metropolitan Police Courts, 22

  Middlesex Hospital, 108

  Milfield, 171

  Mill, John Stuart, 94–5, 126, 158, 237

  Mindell, Fania, 264

  Minkin sisters, 289, 290

  Minto, Lady, 36

  Mitchell, Dr, 68

  Mitchison, Naomi, 274

  Mohl, Julius, 98

  Monckton-Milnes, Richard, 103–5, 108

  Montreal, 258

  Montreal, 214

  Moore, Dr, 179, 180

  Moral Reform Union, 169

  Morning Chronicle, 175

  Most, Johann, 289–94, 297, 304, 309

  Mother Earth, 307–9, 312, 317

  mothers, Infant Custody Act, 35–6, 39–40, 51

  Mott, James, 221

  Mott, Lucretia, 215, 216, 219–22

  Mourez, Madame, 195

  Mupro, Alexander, 176

  Naples, 97, 191

  National American Woman Suffrage Association, 232–3

  National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, 270

  National Health Society, 84

  National Schools, 134, 145

  National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), 230–1, 232

  New York, 59, 67, 225; Elizabeth Blackwell’s practice in, 75, 76, 78–9; prostitution, 186; ignorance of birth control, 251–3; birth control clinics, 263–6, 267–8; anarchism, 288–9

  New York Anti-Slavery Society, 59

  New York Dispensary for Sick Women and Children, 78

  New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, 79, 80–2

  New York State, 205, 209, 211, 217

  New York Sun, 262

  New York Tribune, 222, 223

  New Zealand, female suffrage, 237

  Newark by-election (1870), 183–4, 187

  Newcastle, 141, 142, 172, 183

  Newnham College, Cambridge, 162, 163–4

  Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 302

  Nightingale, Florence, 3, 80, 93–129, 139, 172, 320; rejects marriage, 7, 100, 103–5, 241; appearance, 8, 120; relations with her parents, 9, 98, 105–6; attitude to feminism, 94–6, 109, 112–13, 124–7; childhood, 96–8;
education, 98; charitable work, 101; desire to be a nurse, 101–8; at Kaiserworth, 105–7; at the Gentlewomen’s Institute, 107–8; Crimean War, 108–11; training-school, 111, 112, 114–17; Notes on Nursing, 112–14; isolation, 118–19; last years, 119–20, 124; kindness, 121–2; opposition to registration of nurses, 122–3; Suggestions for Thought to the Searchers after Religious Truth among the Artizans of England, 126; influence on nursing, 127–9; and the campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 182

  Nightingale, Frances (Fanny), 97–8, 100–3, 105–7, 109, 118–20, 126

  Nightingale, Mai, 100, 122

  Nightingale, Parthenope, 97–8, 100, 102, 106–7, 117–19, 121, 126–7

  Nightingale, William, 97–8, 100–3, 105–7, 109, 118

  Nightingale Fund, 111, 112, 114–17

  Nightingale School, 111, 112, 114–17, 127–8

  No-Conscription League, 313

  North London Collegiate School, 146

  North of England Council for the Promotion of Higher Education for Girls, 180

  Northbrook, Lord, 118

  Northern Echo, Darlington, 193

  Northumberland, 171–2, 197–8

  Norton, Augusta, 7, 19, 25, 27, 38

  Norton, Brinsley, 22, 30, 37–9, 41–2, 48

  Norton, Caroline, 3, 4, 15–52, 172–3, 286, 319, 321; appearance, 7, 8, 18, 24, 40, 48; marriage, 7, 15, 16–17, 19–28, 50–1; relations with her mother, 9; childhood,17–18; A Letter to the Queen, 15, 47; education, 18; Stuart of Dunleath, 20; The Sorrows of Rosalie, 21; The Undying One, 22; children, 22; success as an author, 24, 43, 44, 49–50; The Wife, and Woman’s Reward, 27; separation from her children, 28–30, 32–3, 37–42; sued for divorce, 29–32; and the Infant Custody Act, 33–6, 39–40; The Separation of Mother and Child by the Law of Custody of Infants Considered, 35–6; public attitudes to her, 36–7, 48; A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infants Custody Bill, 40; The Dream and Other Poems, 40; reunited with her sons, 42; social isolation, 43–4; financial problems, 43, 44–5; second court case, 44–6; English Laws for Women in the 19th Century, 46–7; and marriage reform, 47–8, 49–51; second marriage, 49; grandchildren, 48; death, 48, 49

  Norton, Fletcher, 22, 37–8, 41–2, 44, 45, 48

  Norton, George, 18–30, 32–3, 37–46, 48–9

  Norton, William, 26, 37–8, 41–2

  Norway, female suffrage, 237

  nursing: Florence Nightingale’s influence on, 93, 96, 127–9; in the Crimean War, 108–11; Notes on Nursing, 112–14; registration, 122–3; see also medicine

  Nursing Record, 123

  O’Connell, Daniel, 216

  Ohio, 60, 222–3, 224

  Oxford, 174–5, 176

  Oxford University, 145–6, 152, 158, 173, 174–5

  Paget, James, 119

  Paget, Mrs James, 74

  Paine, Tom, 207–8

  Pall Mall Gazette, 193

  Palmerston, Lord, 104, 125

  Paris, 66, 67, 71, 79, 87, 98, 107, 191, 199, 253–4

 

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