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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 |
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... |
Literary Setting | Stella Gibbons | The novel records the social and political changes taking place in Hampstead in the 1960s, including the new Labour
government, council housing, and increased interaction between people of different classes and racial backgrounds. Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury. 226-7 |
Literary Setting | Angela Thirkell | |
Literary responses | Victoria Cross | This novel was mentioned in the House of Commons
debates concerning gender equity in pay: the Labour
MP George Lansbury
commended it as an extraordinary book. Mitchell, Charlotte. Victoria Cross, 1868-1952: A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland. 1 |
Literary responses | Eleanor Rathbone | Opponents of ER
's plans included members of the Conservative
, Liberal
, and Labour
parties, though the Independent Labour Party
gave the plans its official support in 1926. In 1925 some members of the... |
Literary responses | Naomi Mitchison | Stalwarts of the Labour Party
(where NM
's husband had his career to think of) hated We Have Been Warned. Though NM
had explicitly denied that she spoke for any political group whatever, an... |
Leisure and Society | Beatrice Webb | BW
formed the Half-Circle Club
for wives of Labour
MPs. Caine, Barbara. Destined to Be Wives: The Sisters of Beatrice Webb. Clarendon. 182 |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | In an atmosphere of social, political, and artistic upheaval, art and politics merged in the public mind, and Bloomsbury was perceived as politically and aesthetically revolutionary. Stansky quotes a critic writing in the Daily Herald... |
Friends, Associates | Muriel Box | After they moved to Mill Hill, the Boxes became good friends of the Labour
politicians Aneurin Bevan
and Jennie Lee
, through the fact that the two husbands shared the same physiotherapist. They were... |
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