Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Margaret Llewelyn Davies (1861–1944) was the general secretary of the Co-operative Women's Guild from 1899 until 1921. During her tenure, the Guild became far more politically active than it previously had been.Davies' election was a \"turning point\" in the organization's history; her tenure ushered in an era of unprecedented growth and success for the guild. Davies was considered to be such a significant figure in the guild that Catherine Webb considered Davies' retirement such a significant loss for the Guild that she began writing The Woman with the Basket, her history of the Guild to that time. She was a prominent and dedicated pacifist of her era.Davies' had an unusual upbringing; her parents were involved in radical intellectual movements when she was a child. Her father was a fellow of Trinity College and an outspoken foe of poverty and inequality, active in Christian Socialist groups, and also involved in the early cooperative movement. Many of her extended family were also politically active, especially around the issue of women's suffrage. Her brother Arthur Llewelyn Davies was a barrister. Through her brother, she is the aunt of Llewelyn Davies boys who were the inspirarion for J. M. Barrie's work."@en }
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- Margaret_Llewelyn_Davies abstract "Margaret Llewelyn Davies (1861–1944) was the general secretary of the Co-operative Women's Guild from 1899 until 1921. During her tenure, the Guild became far more politically active than it previously had been.Davies' election was a \"turning point\" in the organization's history; her tenure ushered in an era of unprecedented growth and success for the guild. Davies was considered to be such a significant figure in the guild that Catherine Webb considered Davies' retirement such a significant loss for the Guild that she began writing The Woman with the Basket, her history of the Guild to that time. She was a prominent and dedicated pacifist of her era.Davies' had an unusual upbringing; her parents were involved in radical intellectual movements when she was a child. Her father was a fellow of Trinity College and an outspoken foe of poverty and inequality, active in Christian Socialist groups, and also involved in the early cooperative movement. Many of her extended family were also politically active, especially around the issue of women's suffrage. Her brother Arthur Llewelyn Davies was a barrister. Through her brother, she is the aunt of Llewelyn Davies boys who were the inspirarion for J. M. Barrie's work.".