Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda

12 June 1883 - 20 July 1958

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.

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.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Bland, Lucy. “Book Reviews: Angela V. John, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Turning the Tide: The Life of Lady Rhondda</span&gt”;. Women’s History, Vol.

, No. 1, pp. 25-6.

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.

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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.

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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.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Bland, Lucy. “Book Reviews: Angela V. John, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Turning the Tide: The Life of Lady Rhondda</span&gt”;. Women’s History, Vol.

, No. 1, pp. 25-6.