Reform Efforts

Reform Efforts

Simcox was actively involved in numerous reform groups and movements, including the Fabian Society, which was a Socialist group; Women's Suffrage; and the Women's Trades Council. She was also a member of the Socialist party. For more information on Socialism or the other groups in which Simcox was involved, see the links at the bottom of this page.

Postcard by Martin Anderson, a Scottish supporter of Women's Suffrage. The postcard refers to the Married Women's Property Act.

Industrial Remuneration Conference	Fabian Society	Socialists
Cooperative Store for Women	Women's Trades Council	Women's Suffrage

The caption reads, "WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE: The St. James's Hall meeting to support franchise for women house-holders was presided over by Mrs. Garrett Anderson, M.D. Other enthusiasts above are the Misses Lydia Becker, Edith Simcox, and Eliza Orme, Mrs. Oliver Scatchard, Mrs. Ashton Dilke, Lady Goldsmid, and Mr. J. P. Thomasson, M.P. The speeches were sedate in tone" (1884).

Other websites on these subjects:

Women's Suffrage

Images (related to Women's Suffrage)
The National Women's History Project
Social History: Women's Suffrage (illustrations, postcards, and pictures of women's suffrage movement advertisements, marches, and advocates)
Suffrage History (extensive list and description of leaders/contributors, issues, pressure groups, reform acts, and strategies)
The Women's Property Act

Fabian Society

Fabian Society (history and background)
The Fabian Society site (information about the current organization)

Industrial Remuneration Conference

"How to Cause Wealth to be More Equally Distributed" (article by Alfred Russel Wallace from the Conference)

Socialists

The London Socialist Party
Socialism and the Labor Movement (Pre-Socialist Radicals; Socialist writers, philosophers, and political organizations; labor journals and newspapers; background information)
Socialist Party site