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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Nina Bawden
This is in part a memoir about personal grief. She juxtaposes the material details of loss (the watch still going, the unnaturally tidy desk), with the intimacy of memory, the abandoned plans for the future...
Textual Features Eva Mary Bell
The title of this novel comes from the biblical Book of Proverbs: a servant when he reigneth is one of three things for which, it says, the earth is disquieted. Examples of such disquiet...
Textual Features Eva Mary Bell
This time the male protagonist is Sir Anthony Nugent, Governor of the Punjab, and whereas Bell's first heroine came from a leisured life on family money, the new one has been playing a public...
Textual Features Edith Mary Moore
The story sounds characteristic of EMM . Mary Lavender has been left a wealthy widow after ten years of marriage to a rich, heartless, middle-aged north-country industrialist. His will, which left her everything he had...
Reception Annie S. Swan
A modern commentator endorses ASS 's assessment in confirming that she is seldom noticed by literary historians. Charlotte Reid , who considers her in A Cursory Visit of Inspection to Annie S. Swan (Cencrastus...
Publishing Katharine Bruce Glasier
Towards the end of her career, after 1913, KBG also produced articles for the The Labour Woman, as well as League Leaflet.
Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research.
190:121
Law, Cheryl. Women: A Modern Political Dictionary. I.B. Tauris & Co.
66
She also wrote a regular column for the Manchester...
Publishing Cicely Hamilton
This pamphlet was reprinted in 1982 in a limited edition of 700, from a copy rescued from a rubbish bin in the Labour Party Library in the 1970s. One of the reprints was recently offered...
Author summary Beatrice Webb
An important and forceful left-wing intellectual (a shaper both of the Fabian Society and of the Labour Party ), BW wrote at the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century. Her...
Author summary Mary Agnes Hamilton
MAH published during the first half of the twentieth century, writing to support herself after a disastrous marriage and during a distinguished career in politics and the civil service. Many of her novels provide fictional...
politics Nina Bawden
Inspired by hearing Aneurin Bevan speak when she was a young evacuee in Wales,
Watts, Janet. “Nina Bawden Obituary”. The Guardian.
NB was passionately involved in the post-war election of 26 July 1945, which returned the Labour Party with a landslide majority...
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
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 Jane Hume Clapperton
She was a member of the International Labour Party (ILP),
Waters, Chris. British Socialists and the Politics of Popular Culture, 1884-1914. Stanford University Press.
45
Montefiore, Dora. “Jane Hume Clapperton Speaks”. New Age, p. 288.
288
and also supported the Anarchist Legitimation League .
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge.
166
Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Feminism, Sex and Morality. Tauris Parke.
172

Timeline

14 December 1918: The post-war general election (sometimes...

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14 December 1918

The post-war general election (sometimes called the coupon election) was the first in which some British women (those over thirty with a property qualification of their own or their husband's) voted.

Summer 1919: John Maynard Keynes published The Economic...

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Summer 1919

John Maynard Keynes published The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

March 1922: The Labour Party Conference declared that...

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March 1922

The Labour Party Conference declared that women still in wartime jobs should be paid at trade union rates and that all trade unions should support this aim.

Later 1922: Thirty-one women candidates sought office...

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Later 1922

Thirty-one women candidates sought office during the general election campaign, but none were elected to parliament except the sitting members Lady Astor and Margaret Wintringham .

6 December 1923: A general election was held in Britain....

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6 December 1923

A general election was held in Britain.

1924: John Wheatley, Minister of Health, forbade...

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1924

John Wheatley , Minister of Health, forbade medical health officers to offer birth control advice.

22 January 1924: After the Labour Party's victory in the general...

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22 January 1924

After the Labour Party 's victory in the general election, party leader James Ramsay MacDonald formed a minority government and succeeded to Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister.

29 October 1924: Ellen Wilkinson was elected as the Labour...

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29 October 1924

Ellen Wilkinson was elected as the Labour Party 's first woman MP.

4 November 1924: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) formed the...

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4 November 1924

Stanley Baldwin (Conservative ) formed the government in the UK for a second time following the general election of 29 October, succeeding to Labour Party leader James Ramsay MacDonald .

July 1928: Jennie Lee, a Scottish coalminer's daughter,...

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July 1928

Jennie Lee , a Scottish coalminer's daughter, was selected as Labour candidate for the constituency of Lanarkshire; she was elected to the House of Commons as its youngest member in a by-election in February...

July 1928: Jennie Lee, a Scottish coalminer's daughter,...

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July 1928

Jennie Lee , a Scottish coalminer's daughter, was selected as Labour candidate for the constituency of Lanarkshire; she was elected to the House of Commons as its youngest member in a by-election in February...

30 May 1929: Labour came in twenty-six votes ahead of...

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30 May 1929

Labour came in twenty-six votes ahead of the Conservatives in the first general election with full women's suffrage: the prospect of voting by women under thirty brought the demeaning nickname of the Flapper Election....

5 June 1929: James Ramsay MacDonald, Labour leader, formed...

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5 June 1929

James Ramsay MacDonald , Labour leader, formed a minority government in the UK for the second time, following the first general election with full women's suffrage.

5 June 1929: James Ramsay MacDonald, Labour leader, formed...

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5 June 1929

James Ramsay MacDonald , Labour leader, formed a minority government in the UK for the second time, following the first general election with full women's suffrage.

7 June 1929: Margaret Bondfield became the first female...

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7 June 1929

Margaret Bondfield became the first female cabinet minister in Britain, serving as Minister of Labour in Ramsay MacDonald 's Labour government.

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