Amber Reeves

Amber Blanco White [née Amber Reeves] (1 July 1887 – 26 December 1981) was a British feminist writer and scholar. Reeves was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, the eldest of three children of Fabian feminist Maud Pember Reeves (née Robison; 1865–1953) and New Zealand politician/social reformer William Pember Reeves. The family travelled to England in 1897, where her father became New Zealand's agent-general. Her widowed aunt, cousins, ‘and attendants’ joined the household in Cornwall Gardens, Kensington. ‘London was hateful after New Zealand’, she said. ‘No freedom. No seashore. Streets, streets, streets. Houses, houses’ (Harrison and White, 10267). Amber Reeves attended Kensington High School until 1904, and then travelled to Europe to...