Tessa Blackstone is a Labour member of the House of Lords and a former minister, first in education and then in the arts. She was an academic social scientist at the London School of Economics, headed Birkbeck College and was the University of Greenwich’s vice-chancellor. She has been the chair of many organisations, including the boards of Great Ormond Street Hospital and the British Library. She lives in London and for nearly a decade occupied 2 Gower Street, where Millicent Garrett Fawcett lived for over forty years. She has two children and five grandchildren.
When Tessa Blackstone moved in to 2 Gower Street, London, she was delighted to discover that a previous tenant had been Millicent Garrett Fawcett, the suffragist leader who dedicated her life to securing women's right to vote. But Tessa could not find a recent biography of this impressive...
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