Augusta Spottiswoode

Gender: Female

Main Suffrage Society: LNSWS

1866 Petition: Yes

Petition Area: 12 James Street, London, Middlesex, England

Sources:

Other sources: https://www.parliament.uk/1866
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey (2006); Anne Dingsdale, 'Generous and Lofty Sympathies: The Kensington Society, the 1866 Women's Suffrage Petition and the Development of Mid-Victorian Feminism' (unpublished PhD, University of Greenwich, 1995)

Further Information:

Additional Information: Augusta was one of the earliest members of the London NSWS. The printing firm owned by the Spottiswoode family was given the order to print the London Society's early reports and stationery.

Other Suffrage Activities: Augusta was elected a Poor Law Guardian in Guildford in 1877.

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