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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... |
politics | Virginia Woolf | VW
's feminist and socialist views went along with firm opposition to the war, and to the militaristic political structures that had produced the war, which is evident in many of her writings. Leonard was... |
politics | Virginia Woolf | But Woolf recorded in her diary in May 1940: Thinking is my fighting. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 694 |
politics | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
and her brother John Strachey
, future politician and author, joined the Independent Labour Party
(which was founded by Keir Hardie
in 1893, gave birth to the Labour Party
, and disaffiliated from it... |
politics | Rebecca West | RW
met Emma Goldman
in London, and joined her in her campaign against Bolshevism and its support in the Labour Party
in Britain. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton. 83 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Wesley | By this time she was in full revolt against the cultural expectations of her mother and indeed her class, and her behaviour in India was so wild and flirtatious that she was sent home in... |
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 |
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 |
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. 183-4 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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... |
politics | Beatrice Webb | One result of the war was to reveal more clearly, to the Webbs as to others, just how unequal was British society. They became ready to advocate such equalizing measures as higher taxation for the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Beatrice Webb | Beginning as a Labour
Government was formed (with Sidney Webb
as a member), this contains vivid personal sketches of leading politicians. |
politics | Beatrice Webb | BW
, with her husband
, founded the Fabian Research Department
(ancestor of the Labour Party
's department of the same name), and began chairing its many subcommittees. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Radice, Lisanne. Beatrice and Sidney Webb: Fabian Socialists. St Martin’s Press. 196, 206 |
politics | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
was a member of the British Labour Party
. She volunteered as a clerk at her local party office in Marylebone, and participated in May Day demonstrations. Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking. 328, 366 |
politics | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
was recruited into the British Communist Party
while she was still a member of the Labour Party
; she remained a Communist Party member for the rest of her life. Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking. 359 |