at Spartacus Educational "Lydia Becker: Pioneer Orator of the Women's Movement" by Joan Parker in the Manchester Region History Review Vol. 5, No. 2: Autumn/Winter 1991/1992. Radical Manchester: Lydia Becker Manchester Central Library, Archives. 1827 births 1890 deaths 19th-century British writers 19th-century British women writers British women activists British feminists British suffragists British women's rights activists Deaths from diphtheria Infectious disease deaths in France Respiratory disease deaths in France People from Chadderton Victorian writers Women of the Victorian era National Society for Women's Suffrage