Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
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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.
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...
Occupation
Lettice Cooper
She refused the request of Lady Rhondda
, founder and proprietor of Time and Tide, that she should use a male pseudonym for her work on it. Circulation rose steeply during her years in this job.
Occupation
Beatrice Harraden
BH
undertook various kinds of public service. She sat on the English committee for awarding the Femina Vie Heureuse
prize, and became a governor of Bedford College
in 1929. During the 1930s she was a...
Occupation
Winifred Holtby
WH
accepted Margaret Haig, Lady Rhondda
's invitation to become a director of Time and Tide.
Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago, 1999.
xii, 136-7
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...
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...
Literary responses
Vera Brittain
The book was widely and favourably reviewed. Lady Rhondda
found it [e]xtraordinarily interesting. I sat up reading it till long past my usual bedtime and have been reading it again all this morning.
qtd. in
Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell, 1996.
Other speakers in this series included T. S. Eliot
and Lady Rhondda
.
Intertextuality and Influence
E. M. Delafield
Lady Rhondda
, the editor of Time and Tide, had approached EMD
earlier in 1929 about writing a light serial for the journal. EMD
then attended a lunch with Lady Rhondda, at which George Bernard Shaw
Intertextuality and Influence
E. M. Delafield
The diary abounds with references to contemporary literature, including several internal allusions to Time and Tide. The Provincial Lady engages in friendly rivalry over its competitions for readers and describes social encounters with the...
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...
Friends, Associates
Helen Waddell
Friends from HW
's time at Somerville
included Maude Clarke
, whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer
Friends, Associates
Evelyn Underhill
EU
and her husband led active social lives, often entertaining friends and colleagues at their home. Blanche Alethea Crackanthorpe
introduced her to Marie Belloc Lowndes
, who became a friend of Underhill and called her...
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...
