“The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
politics | J. K. Rowling | She is not slow to take a public political stance. To her 11 million followers on Twitter
, she tweeted before the 2016 referendum on Britain's leaving or remaining within the European Union (Brexit) that... |
politics | Maude Royden | MR
spoke in support of the NUWSS
's Election Fighting Fund policy at the meeting of the NUWSS and the Labour Party
at the Royal Albert Hall. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell. 100 |
politics | Maude Royden | Up until 1912, the NUWSS had been associated with the Liberal Party
; however, the Liberals' refusal to consider women's suffrage and the Labour Party
's recent concern for it caused the society to change... |
politics | Dora Russell | DR
ran unsuccessfully for Parliament, seeking to represent the Labour Party
for Chelsea. Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1: 177-9 Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century. 364 |
Travel | Dora Russell | Dora was scheduled to visit Russia with Bertrand Russell
. Just before their planned departure he was invited to join a Labour
delegation, and Dora travelled mainly on her own. While in Moscow she made... |
politics | Dora Russell | She prepared evidence with John Maynard Keynes
, St John Hutchinson
, and John St Loe Strachey
(father of writer Amabel Williams-Ellis
). At issue, ostensibly, was the inclusion of diagrams in the pamphlet. DR |
politics | Dora Russell | DR
was involved with the Labour Party
, the Independent Labour Party
(ILP
), and their affiliates for most of her adult life. For instance, she attended the 1924 ILP Summer School
, where... |
politics | Lady Margaret Sackville | UDC activities played an important role in the decline of the Liberal Party
and the rise of the Labour Party
: Joining the UDC became a sort of half-way house between leaving the Liberals and... |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | ES
joined the Labour Party
shortly after women won the vote. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 199 |
politics | George Bernard Shaw | GBS
was a prominent intellectual, social critic, and public speaker. From the mid-1880s he was a dominant force in the socialist Fabian Society
, a champion of the Labour Party
, and a vocal supporter... |
politics | Ali Smith | AS
largely avoids intervening with her authorial presence in her writing, and argues that there is no clear point of intersection between her work and her allegiances or identities, national, sexual, and so on. Gonda, Caroline. “An Other Country? Mapping Scottish/Lesbian/Writing”. Gendering the Nation: Studies in Modern Scottish Literature, edited by Christopher Whyte, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-24. 5 |
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... |
politics | Elizabeth Taylor | Just after her mother's death and before her wedding, ET
took the momentous step of joining the Communist Party
. At this date she envisaged economic freedom as connected with freedom of speech, and with... |
politics | Elizabeth Taylor | Her politics remained steadily Labour
. She took a public stand against the military coup in Greece in 1967 and boycotted South African produce in protest against apartheid. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen. 108, 113 |
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