Cemetery in London. Her name is also listed on her father's gravestone (Hannibal Becker) in the churchyard of the Parish Church of St James, Altham in Lancashire. A plaque commemorating her life is situated adjacent to the Moorfield Colliery Memorial on Burnley Road, Altham, (A678) at the junction with Moorfield Way. Becker's name and image, alongside those of 58 other women's suffrage supporters, are etched on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London. In Paris, France, a street is named after her, the allée Lydia-Becker (Lydia Becker Lane), near Montmartre, close to the rue Eva-Kotchever. In Chadderton, Manchester, UK a street is named after her, Lydia Becker Way. Works Botany for Novices (1864) "Female Suffrage" in The Contemporary Review (1867) "Is there any Specific Distinction between Male and Female Intellect?" in Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions (1868) "On the Study of Science by Women" in The Contemporary Review (1869) "The Political Disabilities of Women" in The Westminster Review (1872) Archives The archives of Lydia Becker are held at the Women's Library at the Library of the London School of Economics. Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation In 2018 the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation was launched at The University of Manchester. The institute is home to internationally renowned immunology and inflammation expertise in a vast array of basic and applied disciplines. The institute is named after Lydia Becker because she was a celebrated natural scientist who conversed with Charles Darwin and because she strongly believed that women were intellectually equal to men and deserved the same opportunities. Notes References Blackburn, Helen. Women's suffrage: a record of the women's suffrage movement in the British Isles, with biographical sketches of Miss Becker. Charleston: Nabu Press, 2013. (originally published 1902 by Williams & Norgate.) Fulford, Roger. Votes for Women: The Story of a Struggle. London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1957. . Herbet, Michael. Up Then Brave Women: Manchester's Radical Women 1819 – 1918. North West Labour History Society, 2012. Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women's Suffrage Movement. London: Routledge, 1996. . Liddington, Jill and Jill Norris. One Hand Tied Behind Us: The Rise of the Women's Suffrage Movement. London: Virago Limited, 1978. . Phillips, Melanie. The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement and the Ideas Behind It. London: Abacus, 2004. . Further reading External links Lydia Becker