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.
WH
was a prolific and well-known journalist, and Time and Tide was a key forum for her writing. Her first article, The Human Factor, appeared there on 22 February 1924. The essay dealt with...
Textual Production
Jan Morris
Morris was writing too early to know of the existence of that splendid Oxford satirist Alicia D'Anvers
, or to include in a section called Port and PrejudiceMary Jones
's early-eighteenth-century fantasy of a...
Textual Features
E. M. Delafield
The object of EMD
's satire is often upper-middle-class social mores. Styles of dress play a prominent role: those with artistic pretensions, for instance, are marked by their sandals and horn-rimmed glasses, sack dresses and...
SLP
lived while her children were young at Stonepit or Stonepitts near Seal in Kent, at the foot of the North Downs.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Stonepitts was later the country retreat of Margaret Haig, Lady Rhondda
....
Reception
Winifred Holtby
Anderby Wold was well-received and gained WH
attention as a young writer. It was put on the list of candidates for the Femina Vie Heureuse award, and Lady Rhondda
included WH
's name on Time...
Reception
Naomi Mitchison
The book was attacked on its appearance as anti-Christian, in an open letter to the press, signed by most of the Establishment including both English archbishops and the headmasters of Eton
and Harrow
. NM
Publishing
E. M. Delafield
EMD
began writing book reviews for Margaret Haig Rhondda
's journal Time and Tide.
Although she wrote for Lady Rhondda
's feminist periodical Time and Tide, RM
felt that most men were intellectually superior to women, and saw extremely intelligent women, even among her forebears, as exceptions to...
politics
Cicely Hamilton
During the Second World War, CH
took part in the war effort by joining the ChelseaFire Service
. Lady Rhondda
, in her obituary of CH
, tells the story of Hamilton, nearly seventy...
politics
Dora Russell
Founded in 1921 by Lady Margaret Rhondda
, the Six Point Group
campaigned initially for economic, legal, moral, social, occupational, and political equality between women and men. The Married Women's Association
, an offshoot of...
Occupation
Vera Brittain
Her trip set off a flurry of activity at the Foreign Office. Charles Peake
, Head of the News Department at the Foreign Office and Chief Advisor to the Ministry of Information, had been informed...
Occupation
Virginia Woolf
The Press, which began as therapy and for the purpose of publishing the works of its owners, grew into a major engine of modern culture and thought.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
371-3
Its political interests were served by enlightened...
Occupation
Lettice Cooper
She refused the request of Lady Rhondda
, founder and proprietor of Time and Tide, that she should use a male pseudonym for her work on it. Circulation rose steeply during her years in this job.
Timeline
7 May 1915: The Cunard liner Lusitania was sunk by a...
National or international item
7 May 1915
The Cunard
liner Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine.
23 December 1919: The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act received...
National or international item
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...
Building item
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.
168
2 February 1927: Margaret Rhondda, as Chairman of the Equal...
National or international item
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.
1928: Members of the British Federation of University...