Margaret Llewelyn Davies
General secretary of the Co-operative Women's Guild / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies (16 October 1861 – 28 May 1944) was a British social activist who served as general secretary of the Co-operative Women's Guild from 1889 until 1921. Her election has been described as a "turning point" in the organization's history, increasing its political activity and beginning an era of unprecedented growth and success. Catherine Webb considered Davies's retirement such a significant loss for the Guild that she began writing The Woman with the Basket, a history of the Guild to that time.
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Born | Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies (1861-10-16)16 October 1861 Marylebone, London, England |
Died | 28 May 1944(1944-05-28) (aged 82) Dorking, England |
Occupation | Activist |
Office | General Secretary of the Co-operative Women's Guild (1889–1921) |
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Davies compiled Maternity: Letters from Working Women (1915), a book based on letters from Guild members about their experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and raising children. She was the editor of Life as we have Known it (1931), a collection of Guild members' reflections, which included an introduction by her friend Virginia Woolf. Davies was a prominent and dedicated pacifist of her era.