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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... |
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 |
Occupation | Nina Bawden | The narrator of her novel Afternoon of a Good Woman, 1976, is also a magistrate. NB
wrote, I was a political appointment, in the sense that the local Labour Party
, asked to put... |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Having earned her bread by work as assistant in a university history department, and as writer, translator, and journalist, MAH
entered politics. Journalism continued to provide her main source of income until 1929, and her... |
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 |
Other Life Event | Sylvia Pankhurst | The Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Committee
, supported by Labour Party
politicians Tony Benn
, Margaret Beckett
, and Gordon Brown
, lobbied for a statue of SP
to be chosen to fill the vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square. “Pass Notes”. The Guardian, p. 3. 3 |
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 |
politics | Doreen Wallace | Generally Rowland Rash was Conservative, while Doreen was socialist although only intermittently in agreement with the current policies of the Labour Party
. Late in life she opposed Britain's entry into the European Economic Community |
politics | Antonia Fraser | In December 1978 AF
voted Conservative, knowing little about Margaret Thatcher
but excited by the idea of a woman becoming Prime Minister for the first time. She later regretted it. In the 1980s she and... |
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 | 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... |
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