The sisters were friends of a large group of local female socialists who all campaigned for sex equality, many of whom were influenced by Carpenter. These included Katharine Bruce Glasier
, Edith Priestman
, Julia Varley
Occupation
Dora Russell
The Russells based their programme on emerging theories of child education and development. They were partly influenced by recent psychologists (including Freud
and Piaget
), and by such educationalists as Margaret McMillan
and A. S. Neill
politics
Katharine Bruce Glasier
Meanwhile, KBG
returned to her socialist activism in 1924 after she had recovered from her breakdown. She began a lecture tour on 4 June that year, addressing socialist gatherings, and worked at selling her husband's...
KBG
's other known pamphlets include: Baths at the Pithead and the Works (1912, the third edition of something at first issued as Miners' Baths), National Old-Age Homes (1914), The Price of War (1916),...
Timeline
October 1891: The Labour Church, an organization professing...
Building item
October 1891
The Labour Church
, an organization professing Christian Socialism, held its first service, in Manchester. Its founder, John Trevor
, had been a Unitarian
minister.
By mid-June 1907: Margaret McMillan, socialist, educationist,...
Women writers item
By mid-June 1907
Margaret McMillan
, socialist, educationist, and sister and biographer of Rachel McMillan
, published an important work in social studies entitled Labour and Childhood.