Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
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Standard Name: Rhondda, Margaret Haig,,, Viscountess
Birth Name: Margaret Haig Thomas
Pseudonym: Candida
Married Name: Margaret Haig Mackworth
Titled: Margaret Haig Mackworth, Viscountess Rhondda
MHVR
, is remembered for her leading role in the struggle for suffrage and equality, as a founder of the Six Point Group
, and the woman who made possible the very influential Time and Tide: An Independent Non-Party Weekly Review. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls her the leading feminist during a long stretch of the twentieth century. She wrote letters, pamphlets, editorials, a memoir, and two collections of essays, travel writing and reviews.
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WH
published Truth Is Not Sober, a collection of short stories dedicated to Lady Rhondda
.
Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago, 1999.
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Dedications
E. M. Delafield
EMD
's novel Thank Heaven Fasting was published with a dedication to Margaret Rhondda which praises the sincerity and strength of [her] own work, both in Time and Tide and elsewhere.
Delafield, E. M. Thank Heaven Fasting. Macmillan, 1932.
v
McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne, 1985.
136
Powell, Violet. The Life of a Provincial Lady. Heinemann, 1988.
103
Education
Hope Mirrlees
She later attended St Andrews Preparatory School, and after that St Leonard's
school (also in the city of St Andrewsin Scotland), a progressive and academically high-flying girls' public school which also ecucated Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Education
Cecily Mackworth
She then attended Sherborne Girls' School
, a respected boarding school at Sherborne inDorset. After school, her aunt Lady Rhondda
, who was a governor of the London School of Economics, secured a...
Employer
Muriel Jaeger
Several times Sayers' letters to her parents mention MJ
getting on the wrong side of employers. On 26 October 1920 Jaeger had got into a quarrel with her employer [presumably Lady Rhondda
] and flung...
Family and Intimate relationships
Cecily Mackworth
Margaret, Viscountess Rhondda
, was CM
's aunt by marriage, since her husband, Humphrey Mackworth
, was the eldest surviving brother of Cecily's father. She was kind to Cecily during the latter's childhood, and later...
Friends, Associates
Kate O'Brien
During her time at Oxford, KOB
developed friendships with the Irishwoman Enid Starkie
(a French scholar of note and later the holder of the Légion d'Honneur) and the English novelist E. M. Delafield
. The...
Friends, Associates
Evelyn Underhill
EU
and her husband led active social lives, often entertaining friends and colleagues at their home. Blanche Alethea Crackanthorpe
introduced her to Marie Belloc Lowndes
, who became a friend of Underhill and called her...
Friends, Associates
Winifred Holtby
Through her work with the Six Point Group
and Time and Tide, WH
met the founder of both, Margaret Haig, Lady Rhondda
. Their professional relationship grew into a friendship, and WH
dedicated her...
Friends, Associates
Helen Waddell
Friends from HW
's time at Somerville
included Maude Clarke
, whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer
Lady Rhondda
, the editor of Time and Tide, had approached EMD
earlier in 1929 about writing a light serial for the journal. EMD
then attended a lunch with Lady Rhondda, at which George Bernard Shaw
Intertextuality and Influence
E. M. Delafield
The diary abounds with references to contemporary literature, including several internal allusions to Time and Tide. The Provincial Lady engages in friendly rivalry over its competitions for readers and describes social encounters with the...
Leisure and Society
Dorothy L. Sayers
Other speakers in this series included T. S. Eliot
and Lady Rhondda
.
Literary responses
Elizabeth Robins
ER
's publisher, Hutchinson
, blamed this book's poor sales (only 300 copies) on the author's insistence on maintaining her anonymity.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995.
214
Reviewers, however, mostly revealed her identify, and those who quarrelled with this book...
Timeline
7 May 1915
The Cunard
liner Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine.
23 December 1919
The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act received royal assent. It removed restrictions based on sex or marriage which prevented women from entering professions, universities, and civic posts.
14 May 1920
Time and Tide began publication, offering a feminist approach to literature, politics, and the arts: Naomi Mitchison
called it the first avowedly feminist literary journal with any class, in some ways ahead of its time.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979.
168
2 February 1927
Margaret Rhondda
, as Chairman of the Equal Political Rights Campaign Committee
, with many other suffrage veterans, signed a letter to the editor of The Times pressing for women to vote on equal terms with men.
The Women's Press Club
held its first annual general meeting, with Lady Rhondda
as president.
November 1963
Hereditary peeresses (those few women inheriting a peerage in their own right) were first admitted to the House of Lords
.
Texts
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. “Introduction”. Time and Tide Anthology, edited by Anthony Lejeune, A. Deutsch, 1956.
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Leisured Women. Hogarth Press, 1928.
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Notes on the Way. Macmillan, 1937.
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Notes on the Way. Books for Libraries Press, 1968.
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. This Was My World. Macmillan, 1933.
Nancy Witcher, Viscountess Astor, Dorothy Balfour, Eleanor Barton, Margery Corbett Ashby, Elizabeth Macadam, and Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda. “Women in Medical Schools”. Times, p. 12.
