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
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Eleanor Rathbone
This followed on Child Marriage in India in the Hibbert Journal in July 1931.
Pedersen, Susan. Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. Yale University Press, 2004.
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In February 1934 ER
wrote to an associate that she had been motivated to write this volume after several years...
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18 December 1935: The Hoare-Laval Pact (appeasement of recent...
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18 December 1935
The Hoare-Laval Pact (appeasement of recent territorial aggression by Mussolini
's Italy) was sealed. It enraged Britons to such an extent that Samuel Hoare
was compelled to retire from politics.
Thomson, David, and Geoffrey Warner. England in the Twentieth Century, 1914-1979. 2nd ed., Penguin Books, 1981.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
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1938: Lady Reading founded the Women's Voluntary...
