Madeleine Symons: Social and Penal Reformer
Madeleine Symons (1895–1957) was a brilliantly effective women's trade union officer during and after the First World War. In years when she was still not qualified to vote, she served on the executive committee of the Labour Party, as a Justice of the Peace, and on a Royal Commission.

Her union career was abruptly ended in 1926 by pregnancy and unmarried motherhood. Later she worked tirelessly as a juvenile magistrate in London and for social justice and penal reform everywhere. Her story, told for the first time on the sixtieth anniversary of her death, is of historical and human interest and has lessons for society today.
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Madeleine Symons: Social and Penal Reformer
Madeleine Symons (1895–1957) was a brilliantly effective women's trade union officer during and after the First World War. In years when she was still not qualified to vote, she served on the executive committee of the Labour Party, as a Justice of the Peace, and on a Royal Commission.

Her union career was abruptly ended in 1926 by pregnancy and unmarried motherhood. Later she worked tirelessly as a juvenile magistrate in London and for social justice and penal reform everywhere. Her story, told for the first time on the sixtieth anniversary of her death, is of historical and human interest and has lessons for society today.
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Madeleine Symons: Social and Penal Reformer

Madeleine Symons: Social and Penal Reformer

by Martin Ferguson Smith
Madeleine Symons: Social and Penal Reformer

Madeleine Symons: Social and Penal Reformer

by Martin Ferguson Smith

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Madeleine Symons (1895–1957) was a brilliantly effective women's trade union officer during and after the First World War. In years when she was still not qualified to vote, she served on the executive committee of the Labour Party, as a Justice of the Peace, and on a Royal Commission.

Her union career was abruptly ended in 1926 by pregnancy and unmarried motherhood. Later she worked tirelessly as a juvenile magistrate in London and for social justice and penal reform everywhere. Her story, told for the first time on the sixtieth anniversary of her death, is of historical and human interest and has lessons for society today.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940158710940
Publisher: SilverWood Books
Publication date: 10/27/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 114
File size: 907 KB

About the Author

Martin Ferguson Smith, OBE, is professor emeritus of Classics at Durham University. He is well known not only as a classical scholar, but also for his highly original research and writing on Rose Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, the artists Helen and Roger Fry, Mary Gordon (first female prison inspector in Britain), Dorothy L. Sayers, Katharine Tynan, and Richard Reynolds (schoolteacher of Tolkien).
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