Eleanor Rathbone

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Standard Name: Rathbone, Eleanor
Birth Name: Eleanor Florence Rathbone
Indexed Name: Eleanor F. Rathbone
Feminist politician ER is called by a recent biographer the most significant woman in British politics in the first half of the 20th century.
Johnson, Richard William. “Associated Prigs”. London Review of Books, 8 July 2004, pp. 19-21.
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She wrote books, pamphlets, and essays on the various social and political causes to which she was committed throughout her long career. In many of her texts, she blends argument about more than one of the many movements or initiatives she supported, such as feminism and state-funded family endowments.
Sepia photograph of Eleanor Rathbone campaigning outdoors. She leans forward as she speaks, her hands on a table bearing a vase of white flowers, There are trees and a banner behind her. She is wearing, apparently, a loose-fitting white summer suit, and a black hat, elaborate but compact.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Dora Marsden
Marsden's editorials began with a two-part piece, Bondwomen. Here she notes that social exchanges are dominated by a patriarchy created and governed by men: though some men are servants all women are servants and...
Textual Production Maude Royden
Other contributors included feminist and suffragist Eleanor Rathbone , Elinor Burns , and MR 's nephew Ralph Rooper . Royden's name stands first on the title-page.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Karen Gershon
The book is powerfully carried by political undercurrents. Actions of real-world heroes (Eleanor Rathbone , Quaker champion both of refugees and of Jewish women; Chaim Weizman , who in February 1949 was to become...

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