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This article is about the women's education advocate. For the pottery decorator, whose married name was Emily Grace Davies, see Grace Barnsley
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 was born in
Southampton, England to an
evangelical clergyman and a teacher in
1830, although she spent most of her youth in
Gateshead.
In
1862, after the death of her father, Davies moved to
London, where she edited a feminist publication,
The Englishwoman'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.
Davies began campaigning for a woman's right to
education. She was active on the
London School Board and in the Schools Inquiry Commission and was instrumental in obtaining the admission of girls to official
secondary school examinations.
She then advocated for the admission of women to the Universities of
London,
Oxford and
Cambridge. Like all universities at this time, these were exclusively male domains.
She also became involved in the
Suffrage movement, which centred on a woman's right to vote. She was involved in organizing for
John Stuart Mill's
1866 petition to the
British Parliament) which was the first to ask for women's suffrage. That same year, she also wrote the book
The Higher Education of Women.
In
1869, Davies led the founding of
Britain's first women's college,
Girton College at
Hitchin,
Hertfordshire. In
1873, the institution moved to
Cambridge,
Cambridgeshire. From 1873 to
1875, Davies served as mistress of the college, where she then served as Secretary until
1904. The college didn't become part of Cambridge University and begin granting full degrees until
1940.
Davies also continued her suffrage work. In
1906, she headed a delegation to Parliament. She was known for opposing the militant and violent methods used by the Suffragette part of the women's suffrage movement, led by the
Pankhursts.
In
1910, Davies published
Thoughts on Some Questions Relating to Women. She died in
1921.
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