Lady Margaret Sackville
Lady Margaret Sackville (1881 - 1963), poet and children's writer. She was the daughter of the 7th Earl de la Warr. During the First World War Sackville joined the anti-war Union of Democratic Control and published a collection of poems, The Pageant of War (1916), which denounced women who condoned war as betrayers of their sons. She had a close, sometime romantic, relationship with Labour leader Ramsay Macdonald which survived his denouncement of the landed aristocracy
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10724114
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46099009
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3200px x 5541px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Rita Martin in The Sketch, 27 March 1918
Date
1918
