Mary MacArthur

Standard Name: MacArthur, Mary

Connections

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Friends, Associates Mary Gawthorpe
During her time with the WSPU, MG worked with Christabel Pankhurst (who was twenty-four when Gawthorpe first met her, before she had yet met Isabella Ford ), whom, like Ethel Snowden , she knew from...
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
Mary Agnes Hamilton issued another political life, Mary Macarthur : A Biographical Sketch.
Charques, Richard Denis. “Mary Macarthur”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1251, 7 Jan. 1926, p. 6.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
Her subject, Mary Reid MacArthur , 1880-1921 (wife of the trade unionist Will Anderson , who died only two years before her), had done sterling work in the campaigns to end sweated labour and to...

Timeline

1906: Mary MacArthur founded the National Federation...

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1906

Mary MacArthur founded the National Federation of Women Workers in England and Scotland.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Lorwin, Val R., and Sarah Boston. “Great Britain”. Women and Trade Unions in Eleven Industrialized Countries, edited by Alice H. Cook et al., Temple University Press, 1984, pp. 140-61.
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Lawrence, Elizabeth. Gender and Trade Unions. Taylor and Francis, 1994.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Mary MacArthur

2 May 1906: Prince Henry of Battenburg opened the Sweated...

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2 May 1906

Prince Henry of Battenburg opened the Sweated Industries Exhibition, organized by Mary MacArthur at Queen's Hall, London.
Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
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September 1907: Mary MacArthur edited the first monthly issue...

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September 1907

Mary MacArthur edited the first monthly issue of The Woman Worker, a socialist feminist magazine from the National Federation of Women Workers .
Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
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Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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26 January 1910: The Woman Worker, the journal of the National...

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26 January 1910

The Woman Worker, the journal of the National Federation of Women Workers , ended publication in London.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

20 August 1914: The Central Committee on Women's Employment...

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20 August 1914

The Central Committee on Women's Employment was established to help find war-related jobs for unemployed women. Mary MacArthur of the National Federation of Women Workers was its honorary secretary.
Crosthwait, Elizabeth. “The Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun: The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, 1914-1918”. Our Work, Our Lives, Our Words: Women’s History and Women’s Work, edited by Leonore Davidoff and Belinda Westover, Tiptree, 1986.
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Andrews, Irene Osgood. Economic Effects of the War Upon Women and Children in Great Britain. Oxford University Press, 1918.
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