Victoria Women's Settlement

After Macadam resigned in 1911 as Warden of the Victoria Women's Settlement , she lived in her own small house in a working-class street, where Rathbone, who lived at home with her family, stayed overnight...

Macadam, a Scotswoman one year older than Rathbone, was engaged as Warden of the Victoria Women's Settlement in about 1902. She had already gained Settlement experience in London; she was also a published social...

Shaw was lecturing at Oxford University 's Extension Summer School when they met. At forty-two, he was seventeen years older than MR , and she set him on a pedestal and never thought of him...

ER took on another specifically feminist task in becoming a Visitor with the Victoria Women's Settlement in Liverpool. She became Honorary Secretary of the group in September 1904, and remained with it until 1915.

The year after completing her education at Oxford , MR went to work at the Victoria Women's Settlement in the slums of Liverpool.