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Material Conditions of Writing | Cecily Mackworth | Working for the Labour Party
in summer 1945, CM
wrote a number of reports on current and remembered political issues: among other things she covered the fishing industry (ten thousand words), the government of New... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Dorothy Wellesley | Under her editorship the list included Frances Cornford
, Joan Adeney Easdale
, Ida Graves
, Vita Sackville-West
, Margaret Thomas
(as editor), Julian Bell
, Cecil Day-Lewis
, John Lehmann
, F. L. Lucas |
Material Conditions of Writing | Angela Thirkell | In a whole series of comic novels set in Barsetshire, AT
deliberately recreated an Anthony-Trollope
-like, present-day yet almost period world of the country gentry and the cathedral close. She called herself a sardonic... |
Occupation | Nina Bawden | The narrator of her novel Afternoon of a Good Woman, 1976, is also a magistrate. NB
wrote, I was a political appointment, in the sense that the local Labour Party
, asked to put... |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Having earned her bread by work as assistant in a university history department, and as writer, translator, and journalist, MAH
entered politics. Journalism continued to provide her main source of income until 1929, and her... |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | During 1929-31 she also served as a member of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service
. In 1931 she was elected to the parliamentary executive of the Labour Party
and often spoke for the... |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | The final meeting of the Socialist International
was held in Vienna; Mary Agnes Hamilton
attended as one of the Labour Party
delegation from Britain. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 245 |
Occupation | J. K. Rowling | Before the turn of the century she gave up teaching to become a full-time writer. She also became a patron of and ambassador for several charities: the National Council for One-Parent Families
(now known as... |
Occupation | Judith Kazantzis | Nevertheless she was constantly painting, pursuing her ambition to be an artist. Kazantzis, Judith. “The Errant Unicorn”. On Gender and Writing, edited by Michelene Wandor, Pandora Press, pp. 24-30. 26 |
Other Life Event | Sylvia Pankhurst | The Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Committee
, supported by Labour Party
politicians Tony Benn
, Margaret Beckett
, and Gordon Brown
, lobbied for a statue of SP
to be chosen to fill the vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square. “Pass Notes”. The Guardian, p. 3. 3 |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | ES
joined the Labour Party
shortly after women won the vote. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 199 |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She describes in detail the shock to her thinking caused by the Austro-Serbian conflict in which Russia seemed likely to join and Britain to join in support of Tsarist Russia. Fear rose and blocked thinking... |
politics | Nina Bawden | Inspired by hearing Aneurin Bevan
speak when she was a young evacuee in Wales, Watts, Janet. “Nina Bawden Obituary”. The Guardian. |
politics | Angela Carter | AC
's politics were those of the left, following the Labour
convictions of her mother's family. During the 1960s she supported the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
and went on several of its Easter marches to... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
stood as Labour
candidate for Manchester's Rusholme division in Britain's general election; she was one of sixteen women defeated in this election (the first in which they were eligible to run). Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 322-3 “Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Frederick Pethick-Lawrence |
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