Cicely Dean Corbett (later Cicely Corbett Fisher)

Dates: 1885 - 1959

Lived at: 8 Heathgate (from c1922)

Suffrage organisation(s):

• National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies,
• Women's Industrial Council,
• Anti-Sweating League,
• Liberal Women's Suffrage Group,
• Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage,
• International Women’s Franchise Club,
• Actresses Franchise League,
• East St Pancras NUWSS,
• International Women’s Suffrage Alliance

Key roles:

• Suffrage lecturer,
• Secretary of the International Women’s Franchise Club,
• Member of the council of the Actresses Franchise League
• Executive of the East St Pancras NUWSS,
• Chair of the Hendon Women Citizen’s Council 1926-27

1911 Census:

• Complied; listed as a suffrage lecturer at her parents' house in Sussex.

Militant Activities:

• N/a – suffragist rather than suffragette

Other achievements:

• Campaigned against low pay and poor working conditions at the Women's Industrial Council,
• Organised conferences for the Anti-Sweating League,
• Continued to campaign for women's suffrage after the First World War with the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance.
• Became a Fabian and member of the Labour party

(Her sister, Margery Corbett Ashby was Secretary of the NUWSS from 1907 (and is named on the Fawcett statue))

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