British Federation of University Women
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Smedley | |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | MHVR
's friends included novelist Elizabeth Robins
, Theodora Bosanquet
(spokesperson for British Federation of University Women
and one-time secretary of Henry James
), MP Ellen Wilkinson
(despite of their different stance on party politics)... |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | The group's agenda was to obtain legislative improvements in child-assault laws, the position of unmarried mothers, equality of both parents in guardianship rights, equal pay for teachers, equal civic service opportunities for women and men... |
Textual Production | Margaret Kennedy | Kennedy took the material for this biography from a series of lectures on Jane Austen
she had given at the Liverpool Branch of the British Federation of University Women
and the English Association
of Bath... |
Timeline
20 March 1907
Sara Burstall
, headmistress of Manchester High School for Girls
, chaired a meeting in the school's library in Manchester which resulted in the founding of the British Federation of University Women
.
1973
New activist women's groups in Britain this year included the Feminist History Conference
, the British Federation of University Women
, the Feminist Press Collective
, and Gay Women's Liberation
.