NJ
issued a novel entitled The Beloved Physician, dedicated to Ethel Bentham
, a fellow Labour Party
member, as the really and rightly Beloved Physician.
Jacob, Naomi. Me: A Chronicle about Other People. Hutchinson, 1933.
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Cultural formation
Beatrice Webb
BW
's husband
was elevated to a peerage—for the reason that the Labour
government urgently needed a Secretary of State in the House of Lords. Beatrice refused to be known by the title of Lady.
Caine, Barbara. Destined to Be Wives: The Sisters of Beatrice Webb. Clarendon, 1986.
183-4
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation
Antonia Fraser
Her family were highly educated, upper-class, Labour Party
supporters: English, although her Anglo-Irish father sometimes liked to declare himself an Irishman.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Elizabeth Pakenham, Francis Aungier Pakenham
He was an earl's son, but the second...
Cultural formation
Judith Kazantzis
Her father 's family was Anglo-Irish, and though he liked sometimes to say he was Irish, the family were in every real sense English. They were highly educated professionals of the upper class (on the...
Cultural formation
Alison Uttley
She was born to rural working class parents. They were both fine story-tellers, though her father belonged to the oral rather than the literary tradition. As a child she was sent, by a mother whose...
Cultural formation
Philip Larkin
He is often remembered as a racist, on account of disgracefully vituperative letters and private light verse written during his late, right-wing period, when niggers were hate-figures to him along with Commies and the Labour Party
Characters
Lettice Cooper
The story is set in a town called Aire, which has been variously identified as Leeds and Sheffield. It depicts the socialist movement at a moment of transition: the rich industrialist Marsdens, the old-money...