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‘A Dear Good “God-Mother” to Her’: Margaret MacDonald and Lily Montagu

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Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940

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The relationship between former school friends, the wife of the leading British Labour politician, and the social worker and founder of British Liberal Judaism; discussion of religious aspects of British socialism; divisions between ‘labour’ women and others; the split in the Women’s Industrial Council and its sanitised history; Margaret and Lily’s revised auto/biographies.

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Summers, A. (2017). ‘A Dear Good “God-Mother” to Her’: Margaret MacDonald and Lily Montagu. In: Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940. Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42150-6_6

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