Minnie Lansbury: Suffragette, Socialist, Rebel Councillor by Janine Booth;

Author:Janine Booth;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781910170588
Publisher: Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi)
Published: 2018-12-10T16:00:00+00:00

In the absence of shopping, Minnie and Edgar – and their friend Will Yoxley, who would be joining them the following week for a few days – could live off the fruits of the land:

This is a great place for mushrooms & blackberries. You can gather stacks of mushrooms a couple of fields from here & when I remember that we pay 1s/9d per lb in London, I feel very small.

Although long holidays or travelling abroad during the war were frowned upon as unpatriotic, people who could afford to do so still took short vacations in Britain. Middle-class families holidayed every summer, working-class families less regularly, often taking day trips instead.[237]

One reason that it was easier and more affordable for Edgar and Minnie than for others to go on holiday was that they did not have children. We can not be sure why this was. On the basis of her chosen career as an infants’ teacher, her welfare work with children and her close relationship with her nieces and nephews,[238] we can be confident that Minnie liked children, although this would not necessarily mean that she wanted her own. We know that Edgar was fertile, as he had children with his second wife later in his life, but maybe Minnie was not. Or perhaps they were using contraception: although its use was still controversial, Marie Stopes published her book Married Love in 1918 and opened her first clinic in 1921, so birth control was becoming more accessible.

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