Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press.
168-71
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Textual Production | Eleanor Rathbone | The National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship
published Milestones: Presidential Addresses, a volume of ten speeches given by ER
. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 168-71 |
Publishing | Eleanor Rathbone | She continued this association by writing from 1920 for The Woman's Leader and the Common Cause, soon to be The Woman's Leader as a title taken when the NUWSS became the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
succeeded Millicent Garrett Fawcett
as President of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship
(NUSEC
)—formerly the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
(NUWSS
)—a post she held for ten years. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | The National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship
(NUSEC), prompted by ER
, held a conference on women's living conditions in India. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 105-6 |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
, a strong anti-fascist, chaired a meeting of women's groups organized by the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship
, to discuss the declining rights of German women under Nazism
. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 134 |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | By 1936, the Committee advocated state-sponsored lunch programmes in schools, along with the provision of milk for pregnant women and for children under school age. ER
was joined in these efforts by the Fabian Barbara Drake |
Occupation | Maude Royden | In 1915 she resigned from the society, which had its source in the merging in 1887 of seventeen organizations devoted to campaigning for women's emancipation. Lydia Becker
, then Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, had been... |
Occupation | Maude Royden | Between 1923 and January 1924, she used this position to urge the Church to revise its marriage service by removing implications of female subordination in marriage, specifically the command that the wife obey the husband... |
Literary responses | Eleanor Rathbone | Opponents of ER
's plans included members of the Conservative
, Liberal
, and Labour
parties, though the Independent Labour Party
gave the plans its official support in 1926. In 1925 some members of the... |
Friends, Associates | Maude Royden | Courtney
and Royden served together as executive members of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)
, of which in 1911 Courtney became secretary. They also worked together as vice-chairs for the Women's International League (WIL) |
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