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th a statue in nearby Victoria Tower Gardens in 1930, Fawcett, leader of the non-violent National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, had to wait until 2018 for her moment. The statue depicts her at 50, the age she was when the NUWSS was founded. She stands casually, using a sign reading “Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere,” a line from a speech she made after the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison in 1913.
Emmeline Pankhurst – by Arthur George Walker, 1930. Victoria Tower Gardens.
Despite their philosophical conflicts, Emmeline Pankhurst and Millicent Fawcett are now forever linked in bronze in London’s public spaces. Pankhurst’s statue in Victoria Tower Gardens, across from the Palace of Westminster, commemorates her militant approach to suffrage activism that included hunger strikes, property damage and arrests. Her statue is a reminder of the violence some brave women resorted to in their efforts to win the right to vote. It was unveiled four years after Fawcett’s and depicts her standing with purpose and resolve, arms outstretched as if addressing a rally.
