Amber Blanco White (née Reeves; 1 July 1887 – 26 December 1981) was a New Zealand-born British feminist writer and scholar.

Young women met regularly with men as equals and discussed everything from religious beliefs to social evils to sex, which would have been impossible in the conventional atmospheres of their homes.

Gilbert Murray once wrote of an address she had given to the Newnham Philosophical Society, "It seems to me quite the best college paper that I have read—I mean as treated by a young person and from a non-metaphysical point of view."

After Reeves' address to the Philosophical Society it was rumoured that she and Wells, one of the most prominent and prolific writers of the first half of the twentieth century, had gone to Paris for a weekend.

Once their relationship became well known, there were numerous attempts to break it up, particularly from Amber's mother and from George Rivers Blanco White, a lawyer who would later marry her.

The news that she was pregnant in the spring of 1909 shocked the Reeves family, and the couple fled to Le Touquet-Paris-Plage where they attempted domestic life together.

Amber did not take well to being a housewife; at one point she wrote:[citation needed] The life of washing up dishes in little separate houses and being necessarily subordinate in everything to the wage-earning man is I think very destructive to the women and to any opinion they may influence.

Writing of marriage in her book Worry in Women, she stated that if people choose to break ethical codes, they had to be prepared to cope with guilt.

"[3] In addition to Anna-Jane, Reeves had two children, Thomas, a patent lawyer, and (Margaret) Justin Blanco White, an architect.

Justin married the biologist Conrad Hal Waddington, and had two daughters, mathematician Dusa McDuff and anthropologist Caroline Humphrey.

[4][1] Reeves published four novels and four non-fiction works, dealing with a variety of subjects, but all sharing a common socialist and feminist critique of capitalist society.

In this book, she researched and put together material on the devastation of the rubber trade on the native populations of Putumayo Department, Peru, and Belgian Congo (see the Casement Report for an account of the tremendous human rights abuses in the latter).

She also contributed to a section on how wealth is accumulated by supplying case histories of new powers and forces "running wild and crazy in a last frenzy for private and personal gain".

But when I got to the Labour meetings in the slums, among the costers and the railway men and the women in tenth hand velvet hats—when I saw their pinched grey-and-yellow faces in those steamy halls, I knew all of a sudden that they were my people."

Initially invited by her friend from Cambridge Eva Hubback to help out, she became part of a team of lecturers in 1928, giving twice weekly classes on ethics and psychology.

In 1929, the year after the passing of the Equal Franchise Act which gave women the vote on the same terms as men, she was billed by the Fabian Society to lecture on "The New Woman Voters and the Coming Election".

[5] Although she enjoyed discussing politics and world affairs, she felt disillusioned about the socialist hopes of her youth, and supported the Conservatives in the 1970 election.