Millicent Fawcett Is First Woman to Get Statue in London’s Parliament Square
Her statue will stand as a reminder of how politics only has value if it works for everyone in society." The statue will be paid for from
a £5 million fund announced in this year’s spring budget to celebrate next year’s centenary of the first British women to get the vote.
Those bills will feature a quote from Austen’s book "Pride
and Prejudice": "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!" In the United States, some have argued against the Treasury’s plan to move President Andrew Jackson, who owned slaves, to the back of the $20 bill and to place Harriet Tubman, a former slave who escaped to freedom and helped others do the same, on the front.
Prime Minister Theresa May announced on Sunday that Millicent Garrett Fawcett, who campaigned for the right of women to vote,
will be honored with a statue to stand in the company of giants like Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela.
By STEVEN ERLANGERAPRIL 2, 2017
LONDON — Britain, which has its second female prime minister
and a queen who is the world’s longest-reigning monarch, is getting its first statue of a woman in Parliament Square in London, where there are 11 statues of men.
Mrs. Fawcett formed the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies in 1897
and died at age 82 in 1929, a year after all women in the United Kingdom were granted the right to vote.
Mrs. Fawcett, Mrs. May said, "continues to inspire the battle against the injustices of today." She added: "It is right and proper
that she is honored in Parliament Square alongside former leaders who changed our country.
The Bank of England caused some controversy when it put Churchill on the new polymer £5 bill, replacing the social reformer Elizabeth Fry.