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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | After 1918 SP
was the honorary secretary of the Workers' Socialist Federation
(her former suffrage organisation). Politically transformed by the Russian revolution, she had ceased to believe that suffrage and the electoral process held any... |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | Deeply involved in the political struggles among labour groups in Britain between 1917 and 1924, SP
was ultimately unsuccessful in achieving her goals. At a June 1920 conference, the Workers' Socialist Federation
reconstituted itself as... |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | The competing labour groups had resolved themselves into the Communist Party of Great Britain
(CPGB), and SP
's attempts to develop the CP (BSTI)
into a left-wing faction of the party had failed. Much of... |
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... |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | She was several times invited to stand for election to parliament, but replied that she did not think herself well suited to the necessary compromises of parliamentary politics. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 199 |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | |
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... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Taylor | Through the Communist PartyET
met Raymond or Ray Russell
, a railwayman's son who was apprenticed in the furniture-making business but longed to be a painter. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books. 74-6 |
Literary Setting | Edith Templeton | |
politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | STW
and Ackland, believing that Communism was the only defence against Fascism, joined the Communist Party
. Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora. 55 |
Publishing | Sylvia Townsend Warner | During the 1930s, STW
and Valentine Ackland both wrote political critique for Time and Tide, the New Statesman, the News Chronicle, Woman Today (the paper of the World Women's Committee Against Fascism and War |
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... |
politics | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
was recruited into the British Communist Party
while she was still a member of the Labour Party
; she remained a Communist Party member for the rest of her life. Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking. 359 |
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 |
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