Maud Ward Explained

Maud M. A. Ward was a British socialist activist.

The daughter of an Anglican vicar, she studied at the National Training School of Cookery and became a cook. She became interested in socialism and joined the Social Democratic Federation in Tunbridge Wells, teaching a class on Marxist economics.[1]

Ward supported women's suffrage, joining the Adult Suffrage Society, and serving as its secretary from 1908 to 1909. She was also on the Women's Labour League committee and was a close friend of its leader, Margaret Bondfield, who shared a house with her and Ethel Clarke at one time.[2]

In 1911, Ward gave up activism to become the Chief Woman Inspector for the National Insurance Act 1911.

References

  1. Book: Hunt . Karen . Equivocal feminists . 1996 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 0521554519 . 273.
  2. Book: Collette, Christine. For Labour and for Women: The Women's Labour League 1906–18. Manchester University Press. 132–34. Manchester. 1989. 0-7190-2591-5.