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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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 | 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... |
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 |
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 |
Literary Setting | Edith Templeton | |
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 |
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 | 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 | |
Publishing | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
announced her departure from the Communist Party
(from which she had been expelled) in an article written for the Dreadnought. Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press. 173 |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Pankhurst | From this point the East London Federation of Suffragettes
dropped its connection with the WSPU. In 1916, on hearing about an anti-conscription rally organized by Sylvia, Emmeline Pankhurst
cabled from America: Strongly repudiate Sylvia's foolish... |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | The East London Federation of Suffragettes
was renamed the Workers' Suffrage Federation
in March 1916, to indicate its double focus on suffrage and activism for peace. In May 1918 it was renamed the Workers' Socialist Federation |
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