A NOTABLE WOMAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20172, 5 February 1929, Page 5

A NOTABLE WOMAN.

In the new portrait that was presented to her by her friends and the workers in the women's societies all over. England Dame Millicent Fawcett is pictured wearing the dark gown and starlet hood of a doctor of law, an honour recently conferred upon her. The presentation was made at Lady Astor's house by Miss Eleanor Rathbone, who succeeded Dame Millicent in 1919 as the president of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, formerly the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. _ Mrs. Pethicfc Lawrence in adding her tribute, said she thought it singularly appropriate that the gathering should have been held in the house of Lady Astor, ihe woman who was the first to fulfil part of Dame Millicent's dream by entering Parliament.

Already there' bangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London a painting of ber. The hanging of a portrait of a living person in this gallery is an honour paid to few. That portrait shows her as a young married woman seated beside her blind husband. Dame Millicent was before her marriage Millicent Garrett, one. of the famous trio of sisters, one of whom became Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first -woman to obtain a medical diploma in Great Britain.