A WOMAN'S WORK
RETURN PASSAGE, the autobiography of Violet Markham, C.H.; Oxford University ripe Geoffrey Cumberlege. English price, T takes courage publicly to acknuwledge mistaken judgment for the benefit of posterity, yet Violet Markham, C.H., indefatigable community worker, has made her autobiography the more valuable by so doing. A record of one woman's widespread activities over the past*50° years, her book is candid, admitting her early opposition towards the Suffragette movement when she felt’ that women were uninterested in the rights they already (continued on next’ page) my
BOOKS — (continued trom previous Page? énjoyed, Later, with all the heartburnings of an idealist deserting a cause, she became pro-Suffragette hecause no vote for women "meant in effect the stabilising of a status of per manent inferiority"; and in 1918, *he first occasion on which women were allowed to vote end he candidates she was one of the little body of womenal! "efeated--who stood for Parliament More valuable have been her aonpolitical. activities. First woman Mayor of Chesterfield and founder of its Social Settlement. she also shouldered massive responsibilities in the staggerirg unemp'oyment problems of the ‘thirties; and she has. heen a membe! of numerous trade boards and advisory committees This experience togethe: with widespread ang observant travel has contributed towards her emergence now as a woman of stature, This .woman. whe for exercise "skipped among the dour peasants" at whistle-stops along the Trans-Siberian Railway, has pungent comment to offer on statesmen and public affairs. For example, referring to the Danzig: problem. *A belief common to all inter national bodies that formulas can sclve all problems if mouthed sufficientlyofterr by mouths without teeth," The somewhat tedious inclusion of life. histories of her belaved dogs and _
details of obscure relatives detract somewhat trom a book which, if not uniquely penetrating, is nevertheless a valuable social document and the mirror of a woman who gradually "changed from a confirmed agnostic to a most imperfect Christian." ~~
Prudence
Gregory
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 741, 25 September 1953, Page 13
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