ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with Rackham’s (née Tabor’s) childhood and education at Newnham College, Cambridge and her formative class and gender-based experiences. She grew up in Notting Hill, London, the youngest of five siblings. Her mother, Emma (née Woodcock) was descended from a prominent Wigan family and her father, Henry Samuel Tabor, from progressive gentleman farmers. Holidays are spent at Fennes, the Essex family farm. She is exposed to urban poverty in London and rural living conditions on the farm and becomes a lifelong opponent of animal cruelty.
