This edition consists of letters written by A.S. Rowntree, a Quaker member of the chocolate-manufacturing family, to his wife, M.K. Rowntree, when he was a Liberal MP for his home city of York. It reveals important information about the duties of backbench MPs and how they saw the world. Specifically, it expands upon how Quakers viewed politics, the problems of pacifists in World War I and how marriage fitted into the life of an early twentieth-century politician.
Letters written by A. S. Rowntree to his wife, 1910 to 1918.
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Letters 1910; Letters 1911; Letters 1912; Letters 1913; Letters 1914; Letters 1915; Letters 1916; Letters 1917; Letters 1918; Index.