Life and Turbulent Times of Clara Dorothea Rackham - Suffragist, Socialist, and Social Reformer

This is the first critical study of Clara Dorothea Rackham née Tabor (1875-1966), a towering figure in the suffrage, labour, co-operative, peace and adult education movements but virtually forgotten today.

List of contents

0. Introduction 1. Young Clara 2. ‘Better is Wisdom than Weapons of War’: Suffragist and Factory Inspector 3. ‘Cambridge’s Clara’: Labour Councillor and Magistrate 4. ‘That Intolerable Woman’: Fighting for the Unemployed 5. War 6. After the Deluge

About the author

Maroula Joannou is Emerita Professor at Anglia Ruskin University attached to the Labour History Research Unit. She has published over forty book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals. She is the author of The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice and editor of volume eight of the Palgrave History of British Women’s Writing,

Summary

This is the first critical study of Clara Dorothea Rackham née Tabor (1875-1966), a towering figure in the suffrage, labour, co-operative, peace and adult education movements but virtually forgotten today.

Product details

• Authors: Maroula Joannou, Joannou Maroula
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.10.2022
• EAN: 9780367373924
• ISBN: 978-0-367-37392-4
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Elections and referenda / suffrage