| 词条 | Dorothy Thurtle |
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Early lifeShe was the sixth child of the eight daughters and four sons of George Lansbury, politician and social reformer, and Labour Party leader from 1932 to 1935, and his wife Elizabeth Jane Lansbury (née Brine).[1] CareerShe was 16 when she became a member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP).[1] She started work as a clerk and accountant, and very soon joined the National Union of Clerks.[1] She joined the Women's Freedom League and the Women's Labour League, but was unhappy with the militant tactics employed by the suffragette movement, and this led to tensions in the family, especially with more militant members including her brother William Lansbury who went to prison in 1913 for breaking windows in support of the Women's Social and Political Union.[1] In 1924, Thurtle and her husband founded the Workers' Birth Control Group.[1] Thurtle was the general secretary of Shoreditch Trades Council and Labour Party, and in 1925, was elected to Shoreditch Borough Council, later becoming mayor in 1936.[1] From 1946, she served a term as a member of the London County Council, representing Shoreditch.[2] Throughout her career, Thurtle was a tireless advocate for working class women having free access to information on abortion, pressing the Labour Party on this, saying it made nonsense of their supposed commitment to sexual equality.[1] In 1936, Thurtle became one of the earliest members of the Abortion Law Reform Association (ALRA), and served as a vice-president until her retirement in 1962.[1] Thurtle's "greatest contribution to the cause of abortion rights" was as a member of the official interdepartmental committee on abortion, which sat from 1937 to 1939, under the chairmanship of Sir Norman Birkett. She made sure that all the evidence was considered, but did not agree with the majority view, and issued her own minority report, based on the fundamental view that abortion was not riskier than childbirth.[1][3] Personal lifeIn 1912, she married Ernest Thurtle (later MP for Shoreditch).[1] They had two children, a son, Peter, and a daughter, Helen.[1] LegacyLondon's Shoreditch Park contains a memorial garden in her name, laid out in about 1970, and close to the Pitfield Street/Mintern Street entrance.[4] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 {{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/69843|title=Dorothy Thurtle|author=|date=|website=www.oxforddnb.com|accessdate=17 November 2017}} 2. ^{{cite news |title=The New L.C.C. Labour Gains In A Low Poll |author= |newspaper=The Times |date=9 March 1946 |page=2 }} 3. ^{{cite book|author=Barbara Brookes|title=Abortion in England 1900-1967|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=82GhUUrwDcEC&pg=PA126|accessdate=17 November 2017|date=12 December 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-24873-3|pages=125–127}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.php?ID=HAC052|title=London Gardens Online|author=|date=|website=www.londongardensonline.org.uk|accessdate=17 November 2017}} External links{{DEFAULTSORT:Thurtle, Dorothy}}{{UK-activist-stub}} 6 : 1890 births|1973 deaths|British women's rights activists|Independent Labour Party politicians|Labour Party (UK) councillors|Members of London County Council |
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