Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | VB
and George Catlin
, political scientist and Labour
intellectual, were married in a fashionable white wedding at St James's, Spanish Place, London. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 208 Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell. 190 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Oakley | AO
was heavily influenced by her father, Richard Morris Titmuss
, who, without a university education himself, became first an insurance clerk, and then a noted academic and social critic, one of the founders of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | VB
gave birth in London to her daughter, Shirley Vivian Catlin
, who as Shirley Williams later became a Labour
politician and cabinet minister. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 243, 581, 510 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Kazantzis | JK
's father, Francis Aungier Pakenham, was an Oxford
academic teaching political science when his daughter Judith was born. He was already a maverick: he commanded the Oxford Local Defence Volunteers
(later the Home Guard)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Angela Carter | Her mother, Olive (Farthing) Stalker
, came from a coal-mining district in south Yorkshire. She won a scholarship to a grammar school (from which she emerged speaking more correct English than her own mother) Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan. 17 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Marghanita Laski | The political theorist Harold Laski
was ML
's uncle. Laski, a professor at the |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Drabble | MD
's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble
, also attended Cambridge
, and served in the RAF
during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour
candidate for the Tory seat... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Wesley | By this time she was in full revolt against the cultural expectations of her mother and indeed her class, and her behaviour in India was so wild and flirtatious that she was sent home in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Bellerby | Two months after her mother's death, Bellerby's husband
gave up his academic post and retired to live in a village near Cambridge. He joined the Oxford Group
(later known as Moral Rearmament
), became a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kathleen Nott | KN
's mother, Ellen Nott
, was a formidable matriarch who managed a boarding house in Brixton, South London. Paterson, Elizabeth. “A voice against the tides of fashion: Kathleen Nott”. The Guardian. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Muriel Box | One of Gardiner's great-grandfathers was the Victorian author Dionysius Lardner
, who extramaritally fathered Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot, better known as playwright Dion Boucicault
. His family had strong links with the theatre. Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin. 246ff Box, Muriel. Rebel Advocate. Victor Gollancz. 195, 201, 18ff |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kathleen Nott | KN
's father, Philip Nott
, was a lithographic printer. He was something he called a liberal, which meant he probably voted Liberal
and disapproved of war, capitalism, the Labour Party
, and God. He... |
Employer | Cecily Mackworth | In summer 1945, as the date of the general election approached, CM
began working for the Labour Party
: quite a good job in the research dept, but we are drowned in work. Hewett, Christopher, editor. The Living Curve : Letters to W. J. Strachan, 1929-1979. Taranman. 47 |
Employer | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
sat as Labour
Member of Parliament for Blackburn in Lancashire. She won her seat in the Flapper Election and lost it in the landslide victory of the National Coalition
government on 27 October 1931. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black. 1966 Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 180 |
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