Maud Ward

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 was a supporter of women's suffrage, joining the Adult Suffrage Society, and serving as its secretary from 1908 to 1909.[1] She was also on the committee of the Women's Labour League, and was a close friend of its leader, Margaret Bondfield, at one time sharing a house with her and Ethel Clarke.[2]

In about 1911, Ward gave up activism to become the Chief Woman Inspector for the National Insurance Act 1911.[1]

References

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

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[hunt-1] Hunt, Karen (1996). Equivocal feminists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 273. ISBN 0521554519.

[2] Collette, Christine (1989). For Labour and for Women: The Women's Labour League 1906–18. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 132–34. ISBN 0-7190-2591-5.