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.
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photo of Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda. She is wearing a white open-neck shirt, dark jacket, fur-trimmed coat, and a large wide-brimmed hat.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
politics Dorothy Wellesley
Her fellow signatories included Violet Bonham Carter , Stafford Cripps , archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans , historian H. A. L. Fisher , scientist-philosopher Julian Huxley , sculptor Laura Knight , writers Edith Lyttelton and J. B. Priestley
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
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...
Leisure and Society Dorothy L. Sayers
Other speakers in this series included T. S. Eliot and Lady Rhondda .
Residence Sarah, Lady Piers
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/.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Stonepitts was later the country retreat of Margaret Haig, Lady Rhondda ....
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...
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.
214
Reviewers, however, mostly revealed her identify, and those who quarrelled with this book...
Occupation Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
She also served as vice-president of the Six Point Group (founded on 17 February 1921 by Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda ), another feminist organisation committed to ensuring that the condition of women remained a prominent...
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...
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...
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
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
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...
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...

Timeline

7 May 1915: The Cunard liner Lusitania was sunk by a...

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7 May 1915

The Cunard liner Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine.

23 December 1919: The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act received...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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1928

Members of the British Federation of University Women (later known as the British Federation of Women Graduates ) established the Sybil Campbell Libraryfor the study of the expansion of the role of women in recent generations.

31 October 1944: The Women's Press Club held its first annual...

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31 October 1944

The Women's Press Club held its first annual general meeting, with Lady Rhondda as president.

November 1963: Hereditary peeresses (those few women inheriting...

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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, et al. “Women in Medical Schools”. Times, p. 12.