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.
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...
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.
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.