Dr Catherine Healy

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Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan · Eva Gore-Booth · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

She herself from an early age showed very little interest in marriage and domesticity.

And you see her views in marriage reflected perhaps most clearly in that journal that Mary mentioned, Urania, no shortage of articles in Urania on the pitfalls of heterosexual marriage.

And

And, you know, you see pieces there, you know, taking aim at this assumption, very prevalent at the time, very prevalent still today, you know, that married women somehow have a richer, fuller life.

You know, you get arguments that single women, in fact,

you know, have the better lot.

These are the people who have time to focus on their own intellectual development.

And those were views that were absolutely not common for that time.

But she did also advocate for married women.

She defended their right to work outside the home and felt that forcing married women to stay at home was basically a form of state tyranny and

And she felt that, you know, this idea that a woman's place was in the home was really responsible for millions of stunted lives.

And again, that was a radical point of view.

Yeah, it would not have been a popular stance.

It would not have won her many friends outside of her own networks in London at that time.

She had moved to London from Manchester during the war years.

She took a very public stance against the war and extended the hand of friendship even to German civilians.

Esther writes about how they took time to visit German women and children who had been left

behind after, you know, thousands of German men living in Britain were interned as so-called enemy aliens.

There were also among the hundred or so women from Britain and Ireland who signed an open Christmas letter in December 1914 to German and Austrian suffragists, really expressing their deep regret at the war.

And she was

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