Remembering Eleanor Rathbone, and her campaigning on behalf of Indian girls and women.

Date:   28 July 2016   Time: 3.00

Price:  £3 (£4 for non-members)

Venue: The Women’s Library@LSE   10 Portugal St, London WC2A 2HD – Meet in the Foyer

2016 is the 70th anniversary of Eleanor Rathbone’s death, and this event provides a wonderful opportunity to look into the Women’s Library archives and discover more about her involvement in the child marriage issue and the franchise for Indian women in the 1930s. Dr Susan Cohen will provide a short illustrated biographical introduction to Eleanor Rathbone, before Dr Sumita Mukherjee talks about Rathbone’s interest in India. She will discuss the support Rathbone gave to Indian campaigns to improve the lives of women, working inside and outside parliament, drawing upon the rich correspondence Rathbone enjoyed with various Indian campaigners.

Speakers:

Dr Susan  Cohen was awarded her PhD by the University of Southampton in 2005 for her thesis on Eleanor Rathbone and the refugees. Her monograph, Rescue the Perishing, Eleanor Rathbone and the Refugees was published by Vallentine Mitchell in 2010. She is co- founder of the Remembering Eleanor Rathbone Group.

Dr Sumita Mukherjee was awarded her PhD by the University of Oxford in 2007 and is the author of Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-Returned, published by Routledge in 2010. She is AHRC Fellow at King’s College London, pursuing a project entitled ‘Indian Suffragettes: Networks, Transnationalism and International Feminism, 1918-1950’

Booking: with cheque made out to The Friends of the Women’s Library and send to

The Membership Secretary, 101 Corringham Road. London NW11 7DL