Margaret Llewelyn Davies

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Margaret Llewelyn Davies (1861–1944) was the general secretary of the Co-operative Women's Guild from 1899 until 1921.^[1]^[2] During her tenure, the Guild became far more politically active than it previously had been.^[2]

Davies' election was a "turning point" in the organization's history; her tenure ushered in an era of unprecedented growth and success for the guild.^[3] Davies was considered to be such a significant figure in the guild that Catherine Webb considered Davies' retirement such a significant loss for the Guild that she began writing The Woman with the Basket, her history of the Guild to that time.^[1]

Davies' had an unusual upbringing; her parents were involved in radical intellectual movements when she was a child.^[4] Her father was a fellow of Trinity College and an outspoken foe of poverty and inequality, active in Christian Socialist groups, and also involved in the early cooperative movement.^[4] Many of her extended family were also politically active, especially around the issue of women's suffrage.^[4] Her brother Arthur Llewelyn Davies was a barrister. Through her brother, she is the aunt of Llewelyn Davies boys who were the inspirarion for J. M. Barrie's work.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Blaszak, Barbara J. (2000). Matriarchs of the movement : female leadership and gender politics within the English cooperative movement (1. publ. ed.). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0313309953.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Stuckey, Karyn. "Margaret Llewelyn Davies (1861-1944) and the Women’s Co-operative Guild". National Co-operative Archive. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
↑ Gaffin, Jean; Thoms, David (1993). Caring & sharing : the centenary history of the Co-operative Women's Guild (2nd ed. ed.). Manchester: Holyoake Books. ISBN 978-0851952017. Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Scott, Gillian (1998). Feminism and the politics of working women : the Women's Co-operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War. London: UCL Press. ISBN 1857287983.

Stott, Mary (2006). "Davies, Margaret Caroline Llewelyn (1861–1944)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37681. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

Persondata
Name	Davies, Margaret Llewelyn
Alternative names	Margaret Caroline Davies
Short description	Co-operative leader
Date of birth	1861
Place of birth
Date of death	1944
Place of death

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