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Margaret Jones, the daughter of the classical scholar, Rev. Timothy Jones, was born in 1860. The only daughter in a family of five sons, her father taught her Latin and Greek with her brothers. She was later educated at a High Church convent school and a Paris finishing school.
In 1880 Margaret became a teacher at South Hampstead High School for Girls. She also started on a degree at St Andrews, which she eventually obtained. While involved in the campaign in favour of the Married Women's Property Act of 1892 she met and married the radical journalist, Henry Nevinson. Over the next few years Margaret did charity work for Toynbee Hall and was elected to serve as a Poor Law Guardian in London.
In 1907 several women, including Nevinson, began to question the way that Emmeline Pankhurst and Christabel Pankhurst were running the organisation. These women objected to the way that the Pankhursts were making decisions without consulting members. They also felt that a small group of wealthy women like Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence were having too much influence over the organisation. In the autumn of 1907, Nevinson, Teresa Billington-Greig, Elizabeth How-Martyn and Charlotte Despard and seventy other members of the WSPU left to form the Women's Freedom League (WFL).
In 1908 the famous playwright, Cicely Hamilton, formed the Women Writers Suffrage League (WWSL). The WWSL stated that its object was "to obtain the vote for women on the same terms as it is or may be granted to men. Its methods are those proper to writers - the use of the pen." Nevinson was one of the first women to join the WWSL.
Nevinson wrote several pamphlets published by the including A History of the Suffrage Movement: 1908-1912 (1912), Ancient Suffragettes (1913) and The Spoilt Child and the Law (1913). She also contributed articles to the Women's Freedom League journal, The Vote and wrote the play, In the Workhouse (1911). The play, based on a true story, told of how a man who used the law to keep his wife in the workhouse against her will. As a result of the play, the law was changed in 1912.
During the First World War, Margaret's husband, Henry Nevinson, worked as a foreign correspondent and was wounded during the Gallipoli landings. Her son, he artist, Christopher Nevinson, was a pacifist, refused to become involved in combat duties, and volunteered instead to work for the Red Cross on the Western Front.
After the war Margaret wrote two volumes of autobiography, Fragments of Life, Tales and Sketches (1922) and Life's Fitful Fever (1926). Margaret Nevinson died in 1932.
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