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.
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photo of Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda. She is wearing a white open-neck shirt, dark jacket, fur-trimmed coat, and a large wide-brimmed hat.

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, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Bland, Lucy. “Book Reviews: Angela V. John, Turning the Tide: The Life of Lady Rhondda”. Women’s History, No. 1, pp. 25 - 6.
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By March 1933
MHVR published with Macmillan her autobiography, This Was My World.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne TrautmannEditors , Hogarth Press, 1980.
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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, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Bland, Lucy. “Book Reviews: Angela V. John, Turning the Tide: The Life of Lady Rhondda”. Women’s History, No. 1, pp. 25 - 6.
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