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Travel Pearl S. Buck
Several of PSB 's journeys between China and the USA were undertaken for unwelcome medical purposes. Having been in America for undergraduate study, she returned there in 1920 to have a benign tumour removed after...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Fleur Adcock
The first poem in this volume, like Meeting the Comet, treats a birth-defect—but an unmatching pair of ears, seen from the point of view of the mother, not the baby, is more lightly handled...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Lesley Storm
Before the play's action begins, Fay Edwards's husband of five years, Bryan, has left her and their baby and disappeared as a Communist Party member to the Soviet Union. Now, fourteen months later, a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Evelyn Waugh
The protagonist of these books, Guy Crouchback, is a middle-aged Roman Catholic, divorced from his wife, Virginia (though not in the eyes of the Church , which therefore does not regard a sexual fling with...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Fay Weldon
Whereas Big Women looked backwards to 1971, the new novel is set just into the future, in 2013. Frances Prideaux, its protagonist, is the now eighty-year-old alter ego and imaginary sister of the author FW
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosita Forbes
This is partly a book about change and modernization. RF welcomed particularly the stamping out of tribal conflict and corruption in Iran, and the tolerance newly extended to Jews , Christians , and Zoroastrians
Textual Production Sylvia Pankhurst
SP edited the weekly paper of the East London Federation of Suffragettes , the Women's Dreadnought, named with some panache after a state-of-the-art British battleship.
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press.
68-9, 104, 185
Strachey, Lytton. Queen Victoria. Harcourt Brace.
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Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan.
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Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press.
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Dancyger, Irene. A World of Women: An Illustrated History of Women’s Magazines. Gill and Macmillan.
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Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press.
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Textual Production Sylvia Pankhurst
Publishing through the Workers' Socialist Federation , SP released Housing and the Workers' Revolution: Housing in Capitalist Britain and Bolshevik Russia.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Sylvia Pankhurst
It was renamed the Workers' Dreadnought in July 1917 to reflect SP 's new commitment to socialism. It was published by the Athenæum Press and sold for a halfpenny, with a circulation of 8,000, hawked...
Textual Features Mary McCarthy
The group of urban radical and liberal intellectuals who set up their community in the mountains of New England is led by a general who is discontented with the world and has a desire for...
Textual Features Pearl S. Buck
Hilary Spurling calls this text, a favourite of Mao Zedong and the Communist Party , a hugely popular saga of resistance against a corrupt and unjust government by a band of thirteenth-century outlaws.
Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster.
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Textual Features Pearl S. Buck
The three daughters of present-day China might well remind readers of the three sons of Wang in The Good Earth trilogy, and Buck had begun with Letter from Peking, 1957, on a project of...
Textual Features Kate Clanchy
Antigona comes from the province of Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia (from the hamlet of Drenica near Mitrovica), but calls herself a Malësi from the impenetrable mountains that span four countries: Albania, Serbia,...
Residence Willa Muir
Willa and Edwin Muir left Prague after about three years, shortly before the Communist Party , which had overthrown the elected government, closed Czechoslovakia's borders to foreigners or foreign travel.
The Communist Party controlled Czechoslovakia...
Residence Sylvia Pankhurst
Released from prison under the Cat and Mouse Act to regain her health after a hunger strike in 1913, SP went to live with Jessie Payne and her husband (both shoemakers) in Old Ford Road...

Timeline

1845: Victoria Park in East London was opened to...

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1845

Victoria Park in East London was opened to the public as the first public park in Britain. (The more famous London parks belonged to the Crown.) Situated among the poor, working-class districts of the East...

26 January 1910: The Woman Worker, the journal of the National...

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26 January 1910

The Woman Worker, the journal of the National Federation of Women Workers , ended publication in London.

December 1914: German anti-militarists including Rosa Luxemburg,...

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December 1914

German anti-militarists including Rosa Luxemburg , Clara Zetkin , and Karl Liebknecht founded the secret political organization called the Spartakusbund or Spartacus League.

June 1920: The British Communist Party was founded—in...

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June 1920

The British Communist Party was founded—in a year when socialism was militant in Britain, and when Churchill sent tanks against Communists in Glasgow as well as in Poland.

Late October 1924: A letter inciting Britons to revolution,...

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Late October 1924

A letter inciting Britons to revolution, purportedly written by Grigori Evseyevich Zinoviev and sent from the Third International to the small British Communist Party , was obtained by and published in the British press.

12 March 1925: Chinese ruler Sun Yat-sen, author of the...

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12 March 1925

Chinese ruler Sun Yat-sen , author of the Chinese revolution of 1912 and father of the republic, died unexpectedly, unleashing a wave of popular protest (which had foreign influence as one of its prime targets)...

March 1926: The Woman Worker began monthly publication...

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March 1926

The Woman Worker began monthly publication in London from the Communist Party of Great Britain.

1927: Josephine Ward published a fiction about...

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1927

Josephine Ward published a fiction about the early twentieth-century Italian dictator: The Shadow of Mussolini.

February 1927: Alice Holland produced the first issue of...

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February 1927

Alice Holland produced the first issue of Working Woman, a monthly Communist Party paper published in London.

March 1929: The last issue of Working Woman, a Communist...

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March 1929

The last issue of Working Woman, a Communist Party paper, was published in London.

1 January 1930: The Daily Worker, newspaper of the British...

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1 January 1930

The Daily Worker, newspaper of the British Communist Party , issued its first number; its last number appeared on 23 April 1966, after which the name changed to the Morning Star.

24 April 1932: Five hundred people, mostly male industrial...

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24 April 1932

Five hundred people, mostly male industrial workers, set out on what became known as the Kinder Scout trespass, claiming the public right to roam on privately-owned open land.

1934: US feminist and writer Agnes Smedley, a supporter...

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1934

US feminist and writer Agnes Smedley , a supporter of Communist forces in China, published China's Red Army Marches, an account of the organization and growth of the Red Army 's campaign against the Kuomintang.

February 1936: The awesome trio of political theorist Harold...

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February 1936

The awesome trio
Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited.
of political theorist Harold Laski , publisher Victor Gollancz , and writer and Labour MP John Strachey established the Left Book Club (LBC) .

21 January 1941-26 August 1942: The Daily Worker, the newspaper of the British...

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21 January 1941-26 August 1942

The Daily Worker, the newspaper of the British Communist Party , was suppressed under Defence Regulations.

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