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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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politics | Kate Parry Frye | The Frye family was actively political throughout KPF
's formative years, mostly on behalf of the Liberal Party
: her mother
expected Kate to attend the North Kensington Women's Liberal Association
meetings hosted in the... |
Textual Production | Mary Gawthorpe | Her most controversial newspaper piece was a long article on women's suffrage for the Yorkshire Weekly Post, a reply to a piece by a male journalist. The two pounds she earned for this were... |
Textual Production | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
's earliest adult writing was bound up with her political activities. She began with editing a woman's page in Labour News, our local baby weekly put out by the LeedsLabour Church
... |
Literary Setting | Stella Gibbons | The novel records the social and political changes taking place in Hampstead in the 1960s, including the new Labour
government, council housing, and increased interaction between people of different classes and racial backgrounds. Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury. 226-7 |
politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Her opportunities for public speaking soon exploded. She was a Bristol delegate to the first annual conference of the Fabian Society in February this year; in June she was electioneering on behalf of Ben Tillett |
politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Meanwhile, KBG
returned to her socialist activism in 1924 after she had recovered from her breakdown. She began a lecture tour on 4 June that year, addressing socialist gatherings, and worked at selling her husband's... |
politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
was delighted to see the Labour Party
come to power in the general election of 26 July 1945. This first majority Labour government in history was to succeed in establishing the first welfare state... |
Publishing | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Towards the end of her career, after 1913, KBG
also produced articles for the The Labour Woman, as well as League Leaflet. Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research. 190:121 Law, Cheryl. Women: A Modern Political Dictionary. I.B. Tauris & Co. 66 |
politics | Eva Gore-Booth | The women formed this committee (a break-away group from the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage
) after backing Labour
candidate David Shackleton
in a by-election. In exchange for the support of EGB
... |
politics | Graham Greene | GG
joined the British Communist Party
on a whim for a period of about a month in 1925, probably paying dues of a shilling or so for his brief membership. This was an aberration, since... |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She describes in detail the shock to her thinking caused by the Austro-Serbian conflict in which Russia seemed likely to join and Britain to join in support of Tsarist Russia. Fear rose and blocked thinking... |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
's allegiance to the mainstream Labour Party
, begun during these years, was maintained throughout her life, although she was one of its outspoken internal critics, for instance on issues of unemployment. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Agnes Hamilton | This novel is the love story of Jane Heriot, but also the story of the shaping of her mind. (In novels, observes Jane, most women have no minds to speak of.) Jane is working as... |
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