British Federation of University Women

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Constance Smedley	CS 's sister Ida shared her acting talent and her feminist principles, but her interests diverged from those of Constance when, after holding the first science scholarship at Newnham , she decided on a career...
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 .

International Federation of University Women. 27 Aug. 2001, http://www.ifuw.org/.

Morley, Edith. Before and After: Reminiscences of a Working Life. Editor Morris, Barbara, Two Rivers Press, 2016.

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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 .

Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.

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