Labour Party

NJ issued a novel entitled The Beloved Physician, dedicated to Ethel Bentham , a fellow Labour Party member, as the really and rightly Beloved Physician.

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...

Her family were highly educated, upper-class, Labour Party supporters: English, although her Anglo-Irish father sometimes liked to declare himself an Irishman. He was an earl's son, but the second...

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...

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

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.

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...