Reuters

All-male no more - London's Parliament Square gets first statue of a woman

LONDON (Reuters) - A statue of 19th century British feminist leader Millicent Fawcett was unveiled in London's Parliament Square on Tuesday, the first monument honouring a woman in a public space ...
Artnet

The First Statue of a Woman in London’s Parliament Square Joins Churchill, Mandela, and Abraham Lincoln

The first sculpture of a woman by a female artist in London’s Parliament Square was unveiled to the public on Tuesday. The Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing’s memorial to the suffragist ...
Reuters

London's Parliament Square to get its first statue of a woman

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A century after she successfully campaigned to win women the right to vote, British suffragette Millicent Fawcett will become to first women honored with a statue ...
Teen Vogue

Millicent Fawcett Statue to be Erected in London’s Parliament Square

Millicent Fawcett — a suffragette who fought for women's right to vote in the United Kingdom and won — will be honored in London's Parliament Square, the center of political life in the U.K., Mashable ...
Artnet

London To Commemorate Gandhi in Parliament Square

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi will be unveiled in London’s Parliament Square on March 14th, the BBC reports. The privately financed statue was commissioned after the Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust and its ...
Smithsonian Magazine

London’s Parliament Square Will Get Its First Statue of a Woman

Millicent Garrett Fawcett gives a speech in Hyde Park in 1913. LSE Library/Flickr Commons London’s Parliament Square is dotted with the towering statues of 11 prominent statesmen—among them Winston ...