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Davies, Emily
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1830-1921
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Emily Davies was a British suffragist and activist for women's rights to attend university. Davies was friends with Elizabeth and Millicent Garrett, and helped to found to the Kensington Society along with them. She was also the editor of the English Woman's Journal. Her key area of activism was for education rights for girls and she was key in allowing women to sit official secondary school exams. After campaigning for women to be allowed to attend Cambridge, Oxford, and the University of London, she founded the first college for women in England, which would go on to become Girton College. Although the British senate did not allow to sit for higher education examinations, she continued to teach women these unofficially. In 1906 Davies headed a delegation to parliament to push for women's suffrage. Davies died in 1921.
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Jan 2019. JB