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.
The book was widely and favourably reviewed. Lady Rhondda
found it [e]xtraordinarily interesting. I sat up reading it till long past my usual bedtime and have been reading it again all this morning.
qtd. in
Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell, 1996.
As a student at the London School of Economics, CM
began writing for her aunt Lady Rhondda
's feminist journal Time and Tide. Her first publication there was a review of a long...
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
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...
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.
Occupation
Beatrice Harraden
BH
undertook various kinds of public service. She sat on the English committee for awarding the Femina Vie Heureuse
prize, and became a governor of Bedford College
in 1929. During the 1930s she was a...
Occupation
Winifred Holtby
WH
accepted Margaret Haig, Lady Rhondda
's invitation to become a director of Time and Tide.
Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago, 1999.
xii, 136-7
Occupation
E. M. Delafield
While her husband, who could not find engineering work, took a position as an estate agent, EMD
largely supported her family as a free-lance journalist and novelist.
McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne, 1985.
8-10
She also soon began writing book reviews...
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, 1996.
371-3
Its political interests were served by enlightened...
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...
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...
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...
Publishing
E. M. Delafield
EMD
began writing book reviews for Margaret Haig Rhondda
's journal Time and Tide.
McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne, 1985.
chronology, 8
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
