Susan Pedersen

Standard Name: Pedersen, Susan

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Eleanor Rathbone
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, pp. 19-21.
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Mary Stocks notes that Emily's...
Family and Intimate relationships Eleanor Rathbone
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.
1
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.
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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.

Texts

Pedersen, Susan. “A Babylonian Touch”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, 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.
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, No. 10, pp. 22-3.
Pedersen, Susan. “On the March”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 4, pp. 34-5.
Pedersen, Susan. “One-Man Ministry”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 3-6.
Pedersen, Susan. “Sam, Caroline, Janet, Stella, Len, Helen, and Bob”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 18, pp. 19-22.
Pedersen, Susan. “You’re only interested in Hitler, not me”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 24, pp. 16-18.