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Material Conditions of Writing | Tillie Olsen | After marrying Abe Goldfarb
at a time of near-starvation for many American workers, the future TO
wrote dramatic and publishable journalism under the pseudonym of T(h)eresa Landale in support of the Communist Party
. Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press. 64 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Tillie Olsen | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Cecily Mackworth | CM
was in Berlin when fire was set to the Reichstag
or parliament on 27 February 1933. This caused political panic and gains for the young Adolf Hitler
. It was understood that the Nazis |
Occupation | Flannery O'Connor | FOC
worked as a teaching assistant while she studied for her MFA, Gooch, Brad. Flannery. Little, Brown and Co. 140 |
Occupation | Pearl S. Buck | PSB
taught at a number of Chinese universities. Early in her first marriage (as well as entertaining for her husband and beginning to write seriously) she taught intermittently from 1925 at Nanjing University
(which was... |
politics | Willa Muir | |
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 |
politics | Iris Murdoch | IM
once said that she was a Communist from the age of thirteen; it was a natural allegiance in the thirties for anyone growing up in an idealistic and civic-minded milieu. Her early political thinking... |
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 |
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 | Charlotte Despard | CD
stood as a pacifist Labour candidate on 14 December 1918, for the constituency she knew best, in Battersea, in the first British election in which women were entitled to do so, and was... |
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... |
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... |
politics | Tillie Olsen | Before she left school Tillie parted company with her father over politics. He was now a leading Omaha Socialist; the Communists were accusing the Socialists of pandering to capitalism; Tillie sided with the Communists
... |
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