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Margaret A. Hobbs
Known today mainly for a single collaborative study, this early twentieth-century writer helped document how World War I reshaped the lives of women and children in Britain. Her surviving published work points to a clear interest in labor, industry, and social change.
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Economic effects of the world war upon women and children in Great Britain
by Irene Osgood Andrews, Margaret A. Hobbs
About the author
Margaret A. Hobbs is credited as co-author of Economic Effects of the World War upon Women and Children in Great Britain, a study published by Oxford University Press in 1918 and later issued in a revised second edition in 1921. The book was written with Irene Osgood Andrews and examined how wartime pressures changed employment, family life, and the economic position of women and children in Britain.
Reliable online records about Hobbs herself are very limited, so much of her personal life remains unclear. What can be confirmed is her connection to this substantial work of social and economic research, which has remained available through major public-domain and library collections.
Because biographical information is scarce, she is best understood through the book she helped create: a serious, documentary account of wartime labor conditions and their human consequences. For readers interested in women’s history, labor history, or the social effects of war, her contribution still has clear historical value.