Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda

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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.
  • BirthName: Margaret Haig Thomas
  • Married: Mackworth
  • Pseudonym: Candida
  • Titled: Viscountess Rhondda
    Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
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Milestones

12 June 1883

Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR ) was born in Princes Square, Bayswater, London, an only (or only legitimate) child.
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Bland, Lucy. “Book Reviews: Angela V. John, Turning the Tide: The Life of Lady RhonddaWomens History, Vol.
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By March 1933

MHVR published with Macmillan her autobiography, This Was My World.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
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20 July 1958

MHVR died of cancer at the age of seventy-five.
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
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Biography

Birth and Family

12 June 1883

Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR ) was born in Princes Square, Bayswater, London, an only (or only legitimate) child.
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
1
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Bland, Lucy. “Book Reviews: Angela V. John, Turning the Tide: The Life of Lady RhonddaWomens History, Vol.
2
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2015, pp. 25-6.
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