Winifred Blatchford

Winifred Norris Blatchford (1882–1968) was an English magazine editor and book critic.

Early life edit

She was the daughter of socialist Robert Blatchford and his wife Sarah, née Crossley. She had a sister, Dorothea Glanville Blatchford, and a brother, Corrie; their three other brothers died in infancy.^[1]

Winifred was warned by her father against marrying socialist politician Victor Grayson.^[2]

Writing edit

In 1910, Winifred became editor of Woman Worker, a monthly socialist magazine which changed its name to Women Folk that year.^[3] Her writing condemned the exploitation of the working classes: 'I do not want any woman to slave her life away in shrieking, dinning factories, so that I may wear a woollen gown.'^[4]

During the early 1910s, Winifred also took over the book review column 'In the Library' in The Clarion, the socialist newspaper founded by her father. She often referred to the 'cosy nook' in her home where she read and wrote her book column, 'thus giving her readers instructions on how to take pleasure in reading as a lifestyle practice that belonged to the socialist home.'^[5]

Later life edit

After the death of their mother in 1921, Winifred and her sister Dorothea lived with and cared for their father in Horsham, Sussex until his death in 1943.^[1]

References edit

^ ^a ^b "Blatchford, Robert Peel Glanville (1851–1943), journalist and author". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31924. Retrieved 2024-04-23. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Zientek, Henryk (2014-05-28). "Robert Blatchford material secured by Huddersfield University archive". Yorkshire Live. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
^ Schwartz, Laura (2015). "A Job Like Any Other? Feminist Responses and Challenges to Domestic Worker Organizing in Edwardian Britain". International Labor and Working-Class History. 88 (88): 30–48. doi:10.1017/S0147547915000216. ISSN 0147-5479. JSTOR 43956663.
^ Blatchford, Winifred (19 January 1910). "A Plea for Savagery". Woman Worker.
^ Green, Barbara (2017-10-03). Feminist Periodicals and Daily Life: Women and Modernity in British Culture. Springer. p. 123. ISBN 978-3-319-63278-0.

[:0-1] "Blatchford, Robert Peel Glanville (1851–1943), journalist and author". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31924. Retrieved 2024-04-23. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[2] Zientek, Henryk (2014-05-28). "Robert Blatchford material secured by Huddersfield University archive". Yorkshire Live. Retrieved 2024-04-23.

[3] Schwartz, Laura (2015). "A Job Like Any Other? Feminist Responses and Challenges to Domestic Worker Organizing in Edwardian Britain". International Labor and Working-Class History. 88 (88): 30–48. doi:10.1017/S0147547915000216. ISSN 0147-5479. JSTOR 43956663.

[4] Blatchford, Winifred (19 January 1910). "A Plea for Savagery". Woman Worker.

[5] Green, Barbara (2017-10-03). Feminist Periodicals and Daily Life: Women and Modernity in British Culture. Springer. p. 123. ISBN 978-3-319-63278-0.

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