Rover, Constance (1910–2005)

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Rover, Constance (1910–2005)

English historian. Born Dec 15, 1910, in Cumbria, England; died Feb 16, 2005; m. Frederick Rover (solicitor); children: Helen Self (historian).

Originated the 1st university course in women's studies in England (1960s), at Northwestern Polytechnic, Kentish Town (now part of London Metropolitan University); also wrote Women's Suffrage and Party Politics 1866–1914 (1967), a pioneering study, and Love, Morals and the Feminists (1970).