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Maud Ward

Maud Ward

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Maud M. A. Ward was a British socialist activist.

The daughter of an Anglican vicar, she studied at the National Training School of Cookery and became a cook. She became interested in socialism and joined the Social Democratic Federation in Tunbridge Wells, teaching a class on Marxist economics.[1]

Ward supported women's suffrage, joining the Adult Suffrage Society, and serving as its secretary from 1908 to 1909.[1] She was also on the Women's Labour League committee and was a close friend of its leader, Margaret Bondfield, who shared a house with her and Ethel Clarke at one time.[2]

In 1911, Ward gave up activism to become the Chief Woman Inspector for the National Insurance Act 1911.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Hunt, Karen (1996). Equivocal feminists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 273. ISBN 0521554519.
  2. [2]
    Collette, Christine (1989). For Labour and for Women: The Women's Labour League 1906–18. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 132–34. ISBN 0-7190-2591-5.
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