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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Literary Setting | Angela Thirkell | |
Textual Production | Angela Thirkell | Private Enterprise was followed by Love Among the Ruins, 1948 (a title borrowed from Robert Browning
), The Old Bank House, 1949, and The Duke's Daughter, 1951. The draft of Love Among... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Angela Thirkell | AT
turns her satire on topical issues (notably, again, the Labour government
) as well as on individuals. British Book News. British Council. (1951): 75 |
Cultural formation | Alison Uttley | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Alison Uttley | AU
's friends from university years included GL (Gwladys Llewellyn
, later a teacher) and LM (Lily Meagher
), who both remained unmarried. Another was Gertrude Uttley
. In London she became a... |
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 | 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 |
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 |
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