Communist Party

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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,...

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.

Publishing through the Workers' Socialist Federation , SP released Housing and the Workers' Revolution: Housing in Capitalist Britain and Bolshevik Russia.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...