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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 | 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 |
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... |
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 | 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... |
politics | Elizabeth Taylor | 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... |
politics | Charlotte Despard | CD
stood as a pacifist Labour candidate on 14 December 1918, for the constituency she knew best, in Battersea, in the first British election in which women were entitled to do so, and was... |
politics | Elizabeth Taylor | 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. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen. 108, 113 |
politics | Ethel Mannin | EM
joined the Independent Labour Party
(which had disaffiliated from the decreasingly radical Labour Party
the previous summer); she soon began writing regularly for its paper, the New Leader. Croft, Andy. “Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, pp. 205-25. 212 |
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