ER
's mother, Emily Acheson (Lyle) Rathbone
, was her husband's second wife: biographer Susan Pedersen
implies that Emily was more practical than his intensely pious first wife, Lucretia.
Johnson, Richard William. “Associated Prigs”. London Review of Books, 8 July 2004, pp. 19-21.
The two had most of their personal correspondence destroyed after their deaths. Apart from the possibility that each chose to remain unmarried as a political choice, Susan Pedersen
judges that their relationship was not likely...
Family and Intimate relationships
Eleanor Rathbone
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...
Literary responses
Eleanor Rathbone
Susan Pedersen
calls this book—and a shorter essay, The Economic Position of Married Women, which ER
published in The Common Cause on 4 January 1912—landmark pieces because here ERfound her voice in...
Occupation
Eleanor Rathbone
Susan Pedersen
writes of ER
: There are people around today who owe their lives to the strength of her convictions.
Pedersen, Susan. Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. Yale University Press, 2004.
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Textual Production
Eleanor Rathbone
ER
published another pamphlet, Falsehoods and Facts about the Jews: the latest work listed by Susan Pedersen
among her principal writings.
Pedersen, Susan. Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. Yale University Press, 2004.
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Timeline
5 July 1948: The Labour government introduced the newly...
Building item
5 July 1948
The Labour government introduced the newly created National Health Service
, as part of a near-comprehensive system of social insurance.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
chronology
Jefferys, Kevin. The Churchill Coalition and Wartime Politics, 1940-1945. Manchester University Press, 1991.
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Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
532-3
Pedersen, Susan. “Going up to Heaven”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 10, 28 May 2009, pp. 22-3.
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Pedersen, Susan. “One-Man Ministry”. London Review of Books, Vol.
40
, No. 3, 8 Feb. 2018, pp. 3-6.
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Texts
Pedersen, Susan. “A Babylonian Touch”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 21, pp. 21-2.
Pedersen, Susan. “A Girl’s Right to Have Fun”. London Review of Books, pp. 36-7.
Pedersen, Susan. “Eleanor Rathbone (1872-1946): The Victorian Family Under the Daughter’s Eye”. After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain, edited by Susan Pedersen and Peter Mandler, Routledge, 1994, pp. 105-2.
Pedersen, Susan. Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. Yale University Press, 2004.
Pedersen, Susan. Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-1945. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Pedersen, Susan. “Going up to Heaven”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 10, pp. 22-3.
Pedersen, Susan. “On the March”. London Review of Books, Vol.
39
, No. 4, pp. 34-5.
Pedersen, Susan. “One-Man Ministry”. London Review of Books, Vol.
40
, No. 3, pp. 3-6.
Pedersen, Susan. “Sam, Caroline, Janet, Stella, Len, Helen, and Bob”. London Review of Books, Vol.
39
, No. 18, pp. 19-22.
Pedersen, Susan. “You’re only interested in Hitler, not me”. London Review of Books, Vol.