Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Margaret Llewelyn Davies
Standard Name: Davies, Margaret Llewelyn
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Sir J. M. Barrie | Without children of his own, Barrie had a habit of monopolising the children of friends, for whom he invented elaborate games. Among children so situated were Bevil Quiller-Couch
(who was later the fiancé of the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Davies | Margaret Llewelyn Davies
of the Women's Cooperative Guild
, friend of Virginia Woolf
, was ED
's niece. |
politics | Eva Gore-Booth | The congress was organized by a pacifist group that had split from the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
(NUWSS
) over the issue of supporting the British war effort. Margaret Llewelyn Davies
,... |
Residence | Constance Holme | |
Reception | Q. D. Leavis | With some minor exceptions, interactions between QDL
and Virginia Woolf
were hostile. Both Leavises regularly took up an anti-Bloomsbury stance in their lecturing and writing. After reading QDL
's review, Woolf remarked in her... |
Occupation | Lady Margaret Sackville | Members of the Union of Democratic Control
also included Margaret Llewelyn Davies
and Bertrand Russell
. Helena M. Swanwick
was a member of the Executive Committee, and LMS
was one of twelve women besides her... |
Occupation | Mary Stott | This included weekly reports of the activities of the Women's Cooperative Guild
, and brought her the long-term friendship of a colleague, Nora Crossley
. Mary Waddington got the job partly by saying she had... |
politics | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Stephen (later VW
) offered her support to the suffrage cause in a letter to her friend Janet Case
. This led to her brief volunteer work with the People's Suffrage Federation
which was... |
politics | Virginia Woolf | Virginia's work consisted mainly of addressing envelopes, and she committed herself only to some weeks of this at the beginning and end of 1910. But she was also associated with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Leonard's lifetime's commitment in politics was to British socialism: Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 327 Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 300 |
politics | Virginia Woolf | Like many of her friends and associates, VW
was staunchly anti-war. Her brother Adrian was an active pacifist and secretary of the No-Conscription Fellowship
, and she and many friends were COs, or Conscientious... |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | The Woolfs were planning to acquire a printing press as early as 22 February 1915, when Virginia wrote to Margaret Llewelyn Davies
about their excitement over the prospect: there's a chance of damaging the Webb |
Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | Lyndal Gordon observes that biographically, the novel offers a rationale for the Woolf marriage, while it circles the unknown and unused potentialities of women in the context of their struggle for the vote. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Timeline
1889: Margaret Llewelyn Davies, a Christian Socialist,...
Building item
1889
Margaret Llewelyn Davies
, a Christian Socialist, became general secretary of the Women's Co-operative Guild
(WCG).
8 October 1902: Sunderland Co-operative Society opened the...
Building item
8 October 1902
Sunderland Co-operative Society
opened the People's Store and Settlement on Coronation Street, Sunderland.
October 1910: Margaret Llewelyn Davies and Eleanor Barton,...
National or international item
October 1910
Margaret Llewelyn Davies
and Eleanor Barton
, as representatives of the Women's Co-operative Guild
, gave evidence to the Royal Commission on Divorce and Matrimonial Causes
.
June 1913: At the invitation of Margaret Llewelyn Davies,...
Women writers item
June 1913
At the invitation of Margaret Llewelyn Davies
, Virginia Woolf
attended the Women's Co-operative Guild
Congress in Newcastle.
1921: Margaret Llewelyn Davies resigned as General...
National or international item
1921
Margaret Llewelyn Davies
resigned as General Secretary of the Women's Co-operative Guild
.
1931: Margaret Llewelyn Davies edited a collection...
Writing climate item
1931
Margaret Llewelyn Davies
edited a collection of reminiscences about the Women's Co-operative Guild
(WCG) entitled Life as We Have Known It.
Texts
Woolf, Virginia et al. “Introductory Letter”. Life as We Have Known It, by Co-operative Working Women, edited by Margaret Llewelyn Davies, Reprint ed., Virago, 1977, p. xvii - xxxxi.
Woolf, Virginia, and Anna Davin. Life as We Have Known It, by Co-operative Working Women. Editor Davies, Margaret Llewelyn, Virago, 1977.