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.

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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
Residence Stella Benson
During this visit to London, SB met many cultural, political, and social figures, including Wyndham Lewis (who drew a sketch of her), David Garnett , Kingsley Martin , Charles Morgan , Phyllis Bottome ,...
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/.
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Stonepitts was later the country retreat of Margaret Haig, Lady Rhondda ....
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...
Textual Production Winifred Holtby
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...

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