Maud Pember Reeves (1865–1953)
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Algemene kennis
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Robison, Magdalene Stuart (birth name)
- Geboortedatum
- 1865-12-24
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1953-09-13
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia
- Plaats van overlijden
- Golders Green, London, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Christchurch, New Zealand
London, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK - Opleiding
- Christchurch Girls' High School
- Beroepen
- writer
feminist
social reformer
suffragist - Relaties
- Blanco White, Amber (daughter)
Reeves, William Pember (husband) - Organisaties
- Fabian Society
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Women's Liberal Association - Korte biografie
- Maud Pember Reeves, née Magdalene Stuart Robison, was born in Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand, where her father worked as a bank manager. She met her future husband, William Pember Reeves, at a debutante ball when she was 19. He was a journalist, politician, and son of a newspaper owner. They married in 1885 and had four children.
Their daughter Amber Reeves also became a writer.
In the early years of her marriage, Reeves worked for the weekly Canterbury Times, edited by her husband and owned by her father-in-law.
In 1889, she studied for the first part of a BA degree in French, mathematics, and English at Canterbury College. In 1890, the family moved to Wellington, where her husband was a member of the House of Representatives. She gave up her studies to dedicate herself to the women's suffrage movement. In September 1893, New Zealand was the first country in the world to grant women the vote, and Reeves chaired the first public meeting of enfranchised women in Christchurch the following month.
In 1896, Maud and her family moved to London after her husband's appointment as the agent general representing the New Zealand government. There the couple befriended a number of writers and intellectuals such as George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb.
In 1904,
Reeves joined the Fabian Society, which promoted social reform, as well as the Women's Liberal Association and the executive board of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.
Reeves and Charlotte Wilson co-founded the Fabian Women's Group (FWG), whose members also included Beatrice Webb, Alice Clark, Edith Nesbit, Susan Lawrence, Margaret Bondfield, and Marion Phillips.
In 1909, the FWG began a four-year study of the daily lives of working-class families with new babies living on a subsistence wage of about a pound a week. The FWG had raised money and was able to give each mother extra cash for her children's nourishment for their first year of life. The report on the project, written by Reeves, was published in 1913 as Round About a Pound a Week. The report argued that it was poverty, not maternal ignorance or negligence, that caused high child morbidity and mortality rates. Reeves advocated for government reforms that included child benefit, free health clinics, trained midwives, school meals, and a legal minimum wage.
In 1917, Reeves was appointed director of women's services in the British Ministry of Food. Following the death of her son Fabian in World War I, she turned privately to spiritualism.
From the early 1920s, her participation in public life declined. - Ontwarringsbericht
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