Leonora Eyles

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Margaret Leonora Eyles (also married as Margaret Leonora Murray, born Margaret Leonora Pitcairn on September 1, 1889 in Swindon ; died July 27, 1960 in London ) was a British writer and suffragette.

Life

Margaret Leonora Pitcairn was a daughter of the industrialist Tennant Pitcairn (1861-1905) and Rosa Bevan (1863 / 64-1902). She grew up in Tunstall (Staffordshire) . After the early death of her mother and father, she grew up with her stepmother and fled to London at the age of 18, where she made a living as a worker. She emigrated to Australia , where she worked as a housemaid and in 1909 married the medical student Alfred William Eyles (born 1880). Their children were born in Australia in 1909 and in London in 1912 and 1914. The marriage failed and Leonora Eyles raised the children alone. She earned her living as a typist for the Bernardo’s charity and, during the First World War, as a worker in an ammunition factory.

Her autobiographical book The Woman in the Little House first appeared as a series in Time and Tide magazine in 1922 . In 1928 she married the journalist David Leslie Murray (1888-1962), who published the Times Literary Supplement from 1938 to 1944 . She continued to write under the name Eyles. She took over the department of the mailbox aunt at the women's magazine Woman's Own . She also wrote for George Lansbury newspapers New Leader and Daily Herald . Eyles was a socialist committed to women's rights and also appeared as a speaker.

Her eldest daughter Vivyan Leonora Eyles (1909–1984) wrote under the pseudonym Lydia Holland and was married to Mario Praz and Wolfgang Fritz Volbach .

Works (selection)

  • Margaret protests . Erskine Macdonald, 1919
  • Hidden Lives . Heinemann, 1922
  • Captivity . Heinemann, 1922
  • The Woman in the Little House . Grant Richards, 1922
  • The Hare of Heaven . Andrew Melrose, 1923
  • Family Love, etc. Andrew Melrose, 1923
  • Elfin gold . Mascot Novels, 1923
  • Women's Problems of To-day . Labor Publishing, 1926
  • Shepherd of Israel . Constable, 1929
  • Feeding the Family. Hints for the intelligent housewife . Cayme Press, 1929
  • Strength of the Spirit . Constable, 1930
  • Careers for Women . Mathews & Marrot, 1930
  • Commonsense about sex . Gollancz, 1936
  • Death of a Dog . Hutchinson, 1936
  • They Wanted Him Dead! Hutchinson, 1936
  • No second best . Hutchinson, 1939
  • Eat well in war time . Gollancz, 1940
  • For My Enemy Daughter . Gollancz, 1941
  • Cutting the coat. A book for every housewife in war-time . Hutchinson, 1941
  • Unmarried but happy . Gollancz, 1947
  • Is Your Problem Here? Sampson Low, Marston, 1947
  • Sex for the Engaged . Robert Hale, 1952
  • The Ram Escapes. The story of a Victorian childhood . Peter Nevill, 1953

literature

  • Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy: The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present Day . London: Batsford, 1990, pp. 349f.
  • Maroula Joannou: Eyles [née Pitcairn; other married name Murray], (Margaret) Leonora , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 18. Oxford, 2004, pp. 838f. ( Online )
  • Nicola Beauman : A Very Great Profession: The woman's novel 1914–39 . London: Virago, 1983.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fiona Hackney: Getting a Living. Getting a Life: Leonora Eyles, Employment and Agony 1925–1930 , in: Sue Hawkins, Nicola Phillips, Rae Ritchie (eds.): Women in Magazines: Research, Representation, Production and Consumption . Routledge, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Eyles, Leonora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eyles, Margaret Leonora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and suffragette
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Swindon
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1960
Place of death London