biography
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Rathbone, Eleanor (Florence)
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| female
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| lived:
| (1872–1946)
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| biography:
| Feminist and social reformer, born in Liverpool, Merseyside, NW England, UK. She read classics at Oxford, and became the dominant British advocate for family allowances. She was a leader in the constitutional movement for female suffrage, and as an independent member of Liverpool city council from 1909 she worked vigorously in the housing campaign between the wars. Elected as independent MP for the Combined English Universities, she fought for many causes, including franchise for Indian women, attacked the appeasement of Hitler, and was an enthusiastic proponent of Zionism. |
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