Much of a Scramble
Francesca Wade: Ray Strachey, 23 January 2020
A Working Woman: The Remarkable Life of Ray Strachey
by Jennifer Holmes.
Troubador, 392 pp., £20, February 2019,978 1 78901 654 3 Show More
by Jennifer Holmes.
Troubador, 392 pp., £20, February 2019,
“... in 1928. But reading that book – which is dedicated to Strachey’s friend and mentor Millicent Garrett Fawcett – you wouldn’t know that its writer played a major role in the events described at the end, when an ‘almost religious fervour … sent young ladies to street corners to demand the vote’, and to pledge ‘their whole lives to the ... ”