Parliament Square in London Is Closer to Having First Female Statue
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Parliament Square in London Is Closer to Having First Female Statue
Along with Canning, Lincoln and Mandela, the other statues on the square depict Winston Churchill; Mohandas K. Gandhi; the British prime minsters Robert Peel, Lord Palmerston, Edward Smith Stanley, Benjamin Disraeli
and David Lloyd George; and the South African prime minister Jan Smuts.
Caroline said that We should also remember the women who toiled quietly in the background, doing the more boring
but no less necessary work of lobbying, petitioning, persuading,
Since then, statues of 10 other men — including Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill
and, most recently, Nelson Mandela — have been erected there, but none of women.
20, 2017
LONDON — In 1867, a statue of the statesman George Canning was moved to Parliament
Square in London, across from the Palace of Westminster and Big Ben.
The British artist Gillian Wearing was hired to create a bronze casting of Fawcett,
and on Tuesday, she presented her design for the statue — which will also be the first by a female sculptor on the square.
London officials announced in April that they would rectify
that omission, by placing a statue of Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), who campaigned for women’s right to vote, on the square.
Along with Canning, Lincoln and Mandela, the other statues on the square depict Winston Churchill; Mohandas K. Gandhi; the British prime minsters Robert Peel, Lord Palmerston, Edward Smith Stanley, Benjamin Disraeli
and David Lloyd George; and the South African prime minister Jan Smuts.
Caroline said that We should also remember the women who toiled quietly in the background, doing the more boring
but no less necessary work of lobbying, petitioning, persuading,
Since then, statues of 10 other men — including Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill
and, most recently, Nelson Mandela — have been erected there, but none of women.
20, 2017
LONDON — In 1867, a statue of the statesman George Canning was moved to Parliament
Square in London, across from the Palace of Westminster and Big Ben.
The British artist Gillian Wearing was hired to create a bronze casting of Fawcett,
and on Tuesday, she presented her design for the statue — which will also be the first by a female sculptor on the square.
London officials announced in April that they would rectify
that omission, by placing a statue of Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), who campaigned for women’s right to vote, on the square.