Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Eleanor Rathbone
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Standard Name: Rathbone, Eleanor
Birth Name: Eleanor Florence Rathbone
Indexed Name: Eleanor F. Rathbone
Feminist politician ER
is called by a recent biographer the most significant woman in British politics in the first half of the 20th century.
Johnson, Richard William. “Associated Prigs”. London Review of Books, pp. 19-21.
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She wrote books, pamphlets, and essays on the various social and political causes to which she was committed throughout her long career. In many of her texts, she blends argument about more than one of the many movements or initiatives she supported, such as feminism and state-funded family endowments.
In this volume contributors Eleanor F. Rathbone
, MP (a very early woman member of the House of Commons), Mary Agnes Hamilton
, Erna Reiss
, Alison Neilans
, and RS
herself assess the legal...
Education
Alison Uttley
At Manchester, AU
lived in the women's residence, Ashburne House. Formative teachers in her life included Hilda Oakeley
Oakeley, a Somerville College graduate and a close friend of Eleanor Rathbone
, had a great impact...