Henry Fawcett (1833-84) was the first salaried Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge, holding the Chair from 1863 until his death. His first work, A Manual of Political Economy, was a textbook founded on the orthodox classical political economy of Smith and Mill, and was hugely successful reaching some eight revised editions by 1907. His second book, The Economic Position of the British Labourer, emphasized the changing effect that unionization was having on the traditional bargaining positions between capital and labour. This was followed by Pauperism: Its Causes and Remedies. His fourth and last principal work was Free Trade and Protection. Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929) earned recognition independently of her husband through her contributions to political economy and the suffragette movement. Her Political Economy for Beginners became a bestseller with ten editions in twenty-five years. As well as Tales in Political Economy, she also co-authored with her husband Essays and Lectures, contributing eight of the fourteen chapters. President of the National Union of Women's Societies, her autobiography What I Remember, appeared in 1924, five years before her death.
