Labour Party

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

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...

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...

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...

AT 's next novel, Peace Breaks Out, 1946, continues her investigation into the new Britain. The election which brought Labour to power (on 26 July 1945) is fought out in Barsetshire between the...

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...

AT turns her satire on topical issues (notably, again, the Labour government ) as well as on individuals. This is another novel which engages, tongue-in-cheek as usual, with issues of nationality, imbricated as...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

ES joined the Labour Party shortly after women won the vote.

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...

DR ran unsuccessfully for Parliament, seeking to represent the Labour Party for Chelsea.