Talking about Manure
Rosemary Hill: Hilda Matheson’s Voice, 25 January 2024
Hilda Matheson: A Life of Secrets and Broadcasts
by Michael Carney and Kate Murphy.
Handheld, 260 pp., £13.99, September 2023,978 1 912766 72 7 Show More
by Michael Carney and Kate Murphy.
Handheld, 260 pp., £13.99, September 2023,
“... status. She also got her employer safely through the general elections of 1922, 1923 and 1924. Kate Murphy, whose essay forms a somewhat awkward appendix to Carney’s biography, makes a case for their work that implicitly questions his somewhat dismissive view of Astor as a politician. Despite her influence on attitudes to the rights of women and ... ”