Communist Party

SP announced her departure from the Communist Party (from which she had been expelled) in an article written for the Dreadnought.

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...

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...

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

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. She later wrote that she would...

ES was thoroughly in sympathy with the principles of the Russian Revolution, and was one of the founders of the British 1917 Club . She noted that the concept of equal sharing at the root...

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...

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...

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. She wrote of their early involvement: I...

This story is set in Prague (ET 's birthplace), which is now under Communist rule. The protagonist, a traveller to the city, has a brief affair with a Russian, and later learns that everything...

STW and Ackland, believing that Communism was the only defence against Fascism, joined the Communist Party .

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

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...

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.

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