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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Occupation	E. M. Delafield	While her husband, who could not find engineering work, took a position as an estate agent, EMD largely supported her family as a free-lance journalist and novelist. McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne. 8-10 She also soon began writing book reviews...
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...
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. 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	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. Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell. 1 Virginia Woolf
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. 214 Reviewers, however, mostly revealed her identify, and those who quarrelled with this book...
Leisure and Society	Dorothy L. Sayers	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	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	Ann Bridge	AB 's correspondents included Ka Arnold-Foster , John Betjeman , E. M. Forster , Margaret Haig Rhondda , Margaret Irwin , John Masefield , Naomi Mitchison , I. A. Richards , Vita Sackville-West , and...
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...
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...
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...

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