A groundbreaking biography of Margaret Bondfield, the remarkable political pioneer and working-class woman who rose to become the first female Cabinet Minister in the 1929 Labour government.
Rising from modest semi-rural, semi-industrial origins in the West Country, and years of apprenticeship in shops in Brighton, Bondfield became the first woman to chair the TUC, one of the first female Labour MPs, the first woman to hold government office (1924) and in 1929, the first female Cabinet Minister.
Most of her life was lived in the public eye, but what lay behind her public achievements? In this remarkable book, historian Nan Sloane looks beyond the public façade to reveal Bondfield's hidden personal story, from her complicated personality with a difficult background, a private life which was either secret or non-existent, and a lifelong struggle with imposter syndrome.
Drawing on newly uncovered archival material, including Bondfield's own diaries, this is a fresh and vitally needed reassessment of Margaret Bondfield's influential life and contribution. A vital and timely biography that restores Bondfield to her rightful and prominent place in British political history.
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Margaret Bondfield
The Life and Times of Britain’s First Female Cabinet Minister
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: A Niche in History
- 1 We Were Not Given to Tears
- 2 Eager, Attractive and Vividly Alive
- 3 The Right Thing to Do
- 4 Organize and Educate!
- 5 Not Sex, But Class
- 6 They Want to See Something Done
- 7 Bread and Roses
- 8 The End is Not Yet
- 9 Events Beyond Control
- 10 Isn’t It Glorious!
- 11 Are You Really Going to Russia?
- 12 An Unprecedented Double
- 13 A Strange Adventure
- 14 That Detestable Affair
- 15 Some Woman was Bound to be First
- 16 I Had Not Stopped Growing
- Epilogue: This Remarkable Woman
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates Section
- Copyright
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