Tweedsmuir, Susan. The Lilac and the Rose. G. Duckworth, 1952.
prelims
Violet Markham
Standard Name: Markham, Violet
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
published a volume of memoirs entitled The Lilac and the Rose, dedicated with love and admiration to Violet Markham
, philanthropist and public servant. |
| Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
made her own the friendship with Elizabeth Robins
that had begun because Robins was a friend of her mother's. She was also close to playwright-producer Harley Granville-Barker
and particularly to his second wife, the... |
| Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
was an early member of Mary Cholmondeley
's Give and Take Club
for women writers, and a founding member of another women's luncheon club, the Thirty
. This included women from all walks of... |
| Literary responses | Helen Waddell | Stories from Holy Writ (early work published late in HW
's life, but carefully revised by her for the press) rapidly sold 3,500 copies even with practically no reviewing. Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973. 204 |
| Occupation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | In this position she was responsible for recruiting women for agricultural work and the collection of woollen, cotton, and paper goods for salvage and recycling, and she organised provincial selection boards for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps |
| Textual Production | Eleanor Rathbone | She issued this as a response to an especially offensive letter on the women's movement by epidemiologist Sir Almroth Wright
, published in the Times about the upcoming Conciliation Bill, scheduled for this date. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press, 1996. 159 |
Timeline
December 1908
The Anti-Suffrage Review began monthly publication in London.
17 January 1917
A Women's Service demonstration was held in the Albert Hall to appeal to women to engage in war work, and to display their determination to go on doing all that was needed.
Fraser, Helen. Women and War Work. G. A. Shaw, 1918.
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Spring 1946
Violet Markham
chaired a radio discussion insisting domestic work was uniquely feminine and required proper training.