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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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.
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...
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...
politics
Cicely Hamilton
During the Second World War, CH
took part in the war effort by joining the ChelseaFire Service
. Lady Rhondda
, in her obituary of CH
, tells the story of Hamilton, nearly seventy...
Dedications
E. M. Delafield
EMD
's novel Thank Heaven Fasting was published with a dedication to Margaret Rhondda which praises the sincerity and strength of [her] own work, both in Time and Tide and elsewhere.
Delafield, E. M. Thank Heaven Fasting. Macmillan.
v
McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne.
136
Powell, Violet. The Life of a Provincial Lady. Heinemann.
103
Publishing
E. M. Delafield
EMD
began writing book reviews for Margaret Haig Rhondda
's journal Time and Tide.
McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne.
chronology, 8
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...
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...
