Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda

12 June 1883 - 20 July 1958

Standard Name: Rhondda, Margaret Haig,,, Viscountess

Birth Name: Margaret Haig Thomas

Pseudonym: Candida

Married Name: Margaret Haig Mackworth

Titled: Margaret Haig Mackworth, Viscountess Rhondda

MHVR , is remembered for her leading role in the struggle for suffrage and equality, as a founder of the Six Point Group , and the woman who made possible the very influential Time and Tide: An Independent Non-Party Weekly Review. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls her the leading feminist during a long stretch of the twentieth century. She wrote letters, pamphlets, editorials, a memoir, and two collections of essays, travel writing and reviews.

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Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
Dedications	Winifred Holtby	WH published Truth Is Not Sober, a collection of short stories dedicated to Lady Rhondda . Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago, 1999. xiii
Friends, Associates	Winifred Holtby	Through her work with the Six Point Group and Time and Tide, WH met the founder of both, Margaret Haig, Lady Rhondda . Their professional relationship grew into a friendship, and WH dedicated her...
Reception	Winifred Holtby	Anderby Wold was well-received and gained WH attention as a young writer. It was put on the list of candidates for the Femina Vie Heureuse award, and Lady Rhondda included WH 's name on Time...
Textual Production	Winifred Holtby	WH was a prolific and well-known journalist, and Time and Tide was a key forum for her writing. Her first article, The Human Factor, appeared there on 22 February 1924. The essay dealt with...
Employer	Muriel Jaeger	Several times Sayers' letters to her parents mention MJ getting on the wrong side of employers. On 26 October 1920 Jaeger had got into a quarrel with her employer [presumably Lady Rhondda ] and flung...
politics	Rose Macaulay	Although she wrote for Lady Rhondda 's feminist periodical Time and Tide, RM felt that most men were intellectually superior to women, and saw extremely intelligent women, even among her forebears, as exceptions to...
Family and Intimate relationships	Cecily Mackworth	Margaret, Viscountess Rhondda , was CM 's aunt by marriage, since her husband, Humphrey Mackworth , was the eldest surviving brother of Cecily's father. She was kind to Cecily during the latter's childhood, and later...
Education	Cecily Mackworth	She then attended Sherborne Girls' School , a respected boarding school at Sherborne inDorset. After school, her aunt Lady Rhondda , who was a governor of the London School of Economics, secured a...
Material Conditions of Writing	Cecily Mackworth	As a student at the London School of Economics, CM began writing for her aunt Lady Rhondda 's feminist journal Time and Tide. Her first publication there was a review of a long...
Education	Hope Mirrlees	She later attended St Andrews Preparatory School, and after that St Leonard's school (also in the city of St Andrewsin Scotland), a progressive and academically high-flying girls' public school which also ecucated Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Reception	Naomi Mitchison	The book was attacked on its appearance as anti-Christian, in an open letter to the press, signed by most of the Establishment including both English archbishops and the headmasters of Eton and Harrow . NM
Textual Production	Jan Morris	Morris was writing too early to know of the existence of that splendid Oxford satirist Alicia D'Anvers , or to include in a section called Port and PrejudiceMary Jones 's early-eighteenth-century fantasy of a...
Friends, Associates	Kate O'Brien	During her time at Oxford, KOB developed friendships with the Irishwoman Enid Starkie (a French scholar of note and later the holder of the Légion d'Honneur) and the English novelist E. M. Delafield . The...
Occupation	Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence	She also served as vice-president of the Six Point Group (founded on 17 February 1921 by Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda ), another feminist organisation committed to ensuring that the condition of women remained a prominent...
Literary responses	Elizabeth Robins	ER 's publisher, Hutchinson , blamed this book's poor sales (only 300 copies) on the author's insistence on maintaining her anonymity. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995. 214 Reviewers, however, mostly revealed her identify, and those who quarrelled with this book...

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