Find out more about Margaret
On this page you can find out about:
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Books edited by Margaret
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An acclaimed biography
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More about Margaret and her family
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More about the Women's Co-operative Guild
Books edited by Margaret
‘No-one but a woman knows, stories of motherhood before the war’, ed. Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 2012, Virago, ISBN 978-1-84408-802-7
‘Life as we have known it’, ed. Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 2012, Virago, ISBN 978-1-84408-801-0
Images of book covers used here with permission from Virago
Biography of Margaret
This first biography of Margaret, written by Ruth Cohen, was published in 2020 by The Merlin Press, price £17.99.
It is available from any good bookshop,
or from:
The Merlin Press, www.merlinpress.co.uk.
Margaret Llewelyn Davies: an online talk by her biographer, Ruth Cohen
What the reviews say:
Margaret Llewelyn Davies was not just a great campaigning activist … she was also a great human being and Ruth Cohen does justice to her long overdue life story
Sybil Oldfield, Reader Emeritus, University of Sussex.
…a remarkable piece of historical writing which does justice to the remarkable woman it is about.
Nick Matthews, Journal of Co-operative Studies vol. 53 no. 1, Summer 2020.
It is Cohen's weaving together of the personal and professional parts of Llewelyn Davies' life that make this biography so absorbing... it is a valuable addition to literature exploring the realities of women's lives at the turn of the last century.
Cathy Hunt, Women's History, Spring 2021.
… a magnificent record of the life of a truly outstanding woman … a fascinating, enlightening and inspiring volume.’
Stan Newens review in The Spokesman’ 147, 2021.
More about Margaret and her family
Andrew Birkin, J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys, London: Constable, 1980
Elizabeth Hawksley, September 2020 (blog), The Inspirational Margaret Llewelyn Davies
Sybil Oldfield, ‘Margaret Llewelyn Davies and Leonard Woolf’, in Chapman, Wayne K. and Manson, Janet M., eds., Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, New York; Oxford: Pace University Press, 1998
Jane Wynne Willson, The Chain of Love, a Victorian Family History, Birmingham: Garland Publications, 2018.
See also www.jmbarrie.co.uk where there is an archive curated by Andrew Birkin where you can search for letters to/from/about Margaret.
Margaret's great niece, Jane Wynne Willson, unveils a plaque to her in the churchyard at Kirby Lonsdale
More about the Women's Co-operative Guild
Jean Gaffin and David Thoms, Caring and Sharing, the Centenary History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild, Manchester: Co-operative Union, 1983.
Scott, Gillian, Feminism and the Politics of Working Women, The Women’s Co-operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War, London: UCL Press, 1998.