Edith Lanchester: A socialist pioneer against patriarchy : v

Edith Lanchester (1871-1966) was a British socialist and feminist. She was born to a prosperous architect and grew up in Battersea, south London; she became a prominent activist in the Marxist Social Democratic Federation (SDF). By her mid-20s she was a schoolteacher, then worked as a secretary to Eleanor Marx, daughter of Karl Marx and a prominent activist in her own right.

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