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.
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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| politics | Amber Reeves | AR
was (like her parents before her) a member of the Fabian Society
; papers on her Fabian work are held by the British Library of Political and Economic Science
at the |
| 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 | Naomi Mitchison | NM
attended the annual Labour Party
Conference as delegate of the Argyll Constituency Party. Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz. 204 |
| politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | She used her position to advocate on behalf of women's suffrage, which she believed to be an integral part of socialism. She spoke to this effect on several occasions, including the annual conferences of the... |
| 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 | Naomi Jacob | NJ
began her political life as a Tory who thought Socialism deeply shocking, like all or most of the older generation of her very mixed family. She went out canvassing at elections, urging people to... |
| politics | Rebecca West | RW
met Emma Goldman
in London, and joined her in her campaign against Bolshevism and its support in the Labour Party
in Britain. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton. 83 |
| politics | Phyllis Bentley | PB
grew increasingly conservative, socially if not in party politics, as she grew older. She identified herself as a Liberal, and was uncomfortable about the Welfare State system launched while the Labour Party
held power... |
| politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | When she was invited to stand as a Labour Party
candidate in the 1918 general election, however, she declined, primarily on grounds of her advancing age. A Historical Dictionary of British Women. Europa. |
| politics | Ruth Rendell | During the 1980s RR
was active in support both of the Labour Party
and of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
. Later she was involved with Emily's List
(founded in February 1993 with the aim... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
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