1. ScottJ. Gender and the Politics of History Columbia University PressColumbia1988pp.5I am also indebted to Annette Kuhn (1988) for her warnings about the text–context dualism in the introduction to Cinema, Censorship and Sexuality 1909–1925 RoutledgeLondon1988
2. SpenderDale Time & Tide Wait for No Man has suggested in the introduction toPandoraLondon1984that there was a blunting of the feminist edge of the paper at the end of the twenties. She suggests that this was possibly because for Lady Rhondda “there were few younger women to convince her with their enthusiasm” for her dream of organised and independent women”. My sense is that the context was changing and so was the construction of the dream. The New Feminism altered the landscape of feminism, leading to a brief period of conflict but also to an open exploration of questions of equality and difference, developing further the ideas expressed by Eleanor Rathbone in, for instance, The future of the National Union, Common Cause, 15 February 1918
3. BrittainV. Testament of Friendship ViragoLondon1980p.267
4. RhonddaM. This Was My World MacmillanLondon1933p.298
5. WoolfV. A Reflection of the Other Person: the letters of Virginia Woolf 1929–1931 Chatto & WindusLondon1978pp.226, 236, 257, 423