May Tennant: A Portrait
Markham, Violet
| Publication Date |
1949 |
| Publisher |
The Falcon Press, |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| Condition |
Very good copy in good+ dust jacket |
| SKU |
26881 |
| Notes |
Pale green cloth with gilt titles to spine is clean. Dust jacket is tanned to edges and light rubbed. Faint grease spot to lower edge of dust jacket. Closed tear to front of dust jacket slightly chips to dust jacket spine ends. Endpapers tanned. |
Description
Hardback. 72pp. Signed copy and inscribed copy. Black and whtie frontis. First edition. Inscribed “To / Dame Mary Smieton / from/ Violet Markham/ June 1955”. Mary Smieton was like the books subject a senior civil servant and as such an early pioneer for women in the profession. Dame Mary was only the second woman to hold the office of Permanent Secretary in a government department. Mary Smieton was a member of National Society for Women's Suffrage. May Tennant was a civil servant and one of the first women factory inspectors, leading a team of women inspectors in the 1890s. She was at the heart of political London being the sister-in-law of H.H. Asquith. In contrast to Mary Smieton, Violet Markham was an anti-suffragist and was member of the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage though this did not stop Markham standing for parliament in 1918 for the Liberal Party.
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