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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Josephine Butler | The organizing committee was chaired by Lord Astor
(husband of Nancy, Lady Astor
) |
Occupation | Edith Craig | Despite her successes with the Pioneer Players and the Little Theatre movement, EC
was often unable to find work in London, possibly because of her relationship with Christopher St John
, possibly (as St... |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
was acutely aware of the potential represented by members of parliament, as is shown in her initiative in founding the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform
in 1916, to bring together MPs who were prepared... |
Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | A couple of years after this BH
began a steady flow of letters to the Times on the topic of women's suffrage: the last of these, written on 2 February 1927, was the plea or... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucille Iremonger | Her opening chapter addresses her own experience, with heartfelt reminiscence about the impact of political campaigning on married life. She sets out to combat the view of the candidate's (later the member's) wife either as... |
politics | Edith Lyttelton | In a letter to the Times, EL
and Nancy Astor
appealed for contributions to the Save the Children Fund
, for children affected by the coal miners' strike. The miners had walked out on... |
Publishing | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | MHVR
, with Nancy Astor
, Dorothy Balfour
, Eleanor Barton
, and Elizabeth Macadam
, drafted a letter to the Times protesting against a campaign to exclude future women medical students from London hospitals. Nancy Witcher, Viscountess Astor, et al. “Women in Medical Schools”. Times, p. 12. 12 |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | This prompted Lady Rhondda to call the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act a leaky saucepan. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 87 Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 87 |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | From 1921 to 1924, MHVR
was the president of the National Women Citizen's Association
. During this decade, she was also an executive member of the Women's Consultative Committee
, chaired by Nancy, Lady Astor |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | The group's agenda was to obtain legislative improvements in child-assault laws, the position of unmarried mothers, equality of both parents in guardianship rights, equal pay for teachers, equal civic service opportunities for women and men... |
Occupation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West
, Stella Benson
, Cicely Hamilton
, Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor
and Ellen Wilkinson
, Virginia Woolf
, Naomi Mitchison
, E. M. Delafield
, Rose Macaulay |
Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
was the object of misogynistic attacks, personal and professional, throughout her parliamentary career. When she was absent from a House of Commons
debate in June 1942, someone called A. McLaren commented, I see that... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | The unfolding of this early conference suggests the serious weaknesses of Rathbone's stance on Indian women's issues. One of the first female students at the University of Madras
and the founder of an Indian Women's Association |
Friends, Associates | Freya Stark | Visitors to Asolo (as well as hosts to Stark in England) during this period include Nancy, Lady Astor
, Lord David Cecil
, and Vita Sackville-West
and Harold Nicolson
. Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House. 327 |
Literary responses | Freya Stark | John Jock Murray
and Sir Sydney Cockerell
initially advised Stark against writing this book, urging her to remain in the travel genre rather than attempt philosophical writing. However, they apologized for their opinions when the... |