Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] 's [adj] guild " in BNC.
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| 1 | She then lectured on philosophy and economics for the Women 's Co-operative Guild . |
| 2 | This trend was welcomed by articulate working class women 's groups such as the Women 's Cooperative Guild , because of poor working class housing conditions and because they believed that working class wives needed a respite from the cares of managing a household . |
| 3 | For example , the experience of members of the Women 's Cooperative Guild , who in both their own estimation and that of observers were adjudged respectable married women , shows that family misfortune , particularly in the form of sickness and unemployment , could quickly plunge a family into poverty , whereupon the wife would probably resort to strategies similar to those of her poorer sister . |
| 4 | These findings are reminiscent of the self-reported morbid conditions of the Women 's Cooperative Guild members published in 1915 . |
| 5 | Mrs. Layton , a member of the Women 's Cooperative Guild , made the decision to allow her husband the 1/6d to join the Cooperative Society in the first place . |
| 6 | A member of the Women 's Cooperative Guild remembered working as a nursemaid to a doctor 's family at the age of nine in 1867 , and being unable to read or write , could not let her parents know about the unkind treatment she received . |
| 7 | A determined attempt to extend the benefits of Co-operative trading to the poor was made from soon after its foundation in 1883 by the women of the Women 's Co-operative Guild . |
| 8 | A good example of this well into the twentieth century is the evidence of the Women 's Co-operative Guild investigation into Maternity during the First World War , which found that pregnant working-class women often saved for the coming confinement by stinting on food , and there is plentiful evidence of similar attitudes earlier . |
| 9 | , Margaret Caroline ( 1861–1944 ) , general secretary of the Women 's Co-operative Guild , was born 16 October 1861 in Marylebone , London , the youngest of seven children and only daughter of the Revd John Llewelyn Davies , a Christian Socialist , for many years rector of Christ Church , Marylebone , London , and later of Kirkby Lonsdale , Lancashire , and his wife Mary , daughter of Sir Charles John Crompton [ q.v. ] , justice of the Queen 's Bench . |
| 10 | Reared in the idealism of the Christian Socialists , Margaret Llewelyn Davies became convinced that the Rochdale Pioneers ' theory of co-operation provided an ideal basis for society , and joined the Marylebone branch of the Women 's Co-operative Guild , which had been formed in 1883 . |
| 11 | Similarly , the letters published by the Women 's Cooperative Guild ( WCG ) in 1915 regarding the maternity experiences of 160 of their members whose husbands earned between 24 and 40 / a week and who mostly had been married during the 1890s , showed that women with large families bitterly regretted it , chiefly because of the hard labour necessary to sustain a large family . |
| 12 | An 1894 survey by the Women 's Cooperative Guild showed that 50 per cent of working mothers left their children with grandmothers or other kin ( whom they usually paid ) , while the remainder used neighbours as childminders . |