Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Left Book Club
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Amabel Williams-Ellis | When Victor Gollancz
, John Strachey
, and Harold Laski
founded the Left Book Club
(for the distribution and discussion of radical texts on socialism, fascism, and war) AWE
was an early member. Laity, Paul, editor. Left Book Club Anthology. Victor Gollancz. prelims |
| Friends, Associates | Amabel Williams-Ellis | Her political activities kept AWE
at the centre of London's socially-conscious literary circles. Guests at The Well of Loneliness tea-party included Virginia Woolf
, Rose Macaulay
, Vita Sackville-West
, G. B. Shaw
, and... |
| Publishing | Beatrice Webb | This was their last major work. In the original year of publication a separate, limited edition was printed for the subscribing members of the National Association of Local Government Officials
. A second edition published... |
| politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Warner and Ackland were members of publisher Victor Gollancz
's Left Book Club
, and wrote assiduously for left-wing papers and magazines. (After the second world war, however, Ackland developed divergent and comparatively right-wing views.)... |
| Textual Production | Amber Reeves | AR
published under her married name of Amber Blanco White a monograph entitled The New Propaganda, through Victor Gollancz
for the Left Book Club
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
's short political treatise War Can Be Averted: The Achievability of Collective Security (Left Book Club
) argued for collective security organized by the League of Nations
, and against either appeasement, non-intervention, or disarmament. Stobaugh, Beverly. Women and Parliament, 1918-1970. Exposition Press. 45 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| politics | Doris Lessing | Meanwhile her marriage to Gottfried Lessing
, a communist activist and leading figure in the Left Book Club
, first attracted the attention of MI5
, which was to follow Doris for twenty years, listening... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Marghanita Laski | The political theorist Harold Laski
was ML
's uncle. Laski, a professor at the |
| politics | Pamela Hansford Johnson | During the 1930s PHJ
was involved with left-wing politics. She was, she said, awakened to the reality of Nazism in 1934, Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner. 17 |
| politics | Valentine Ackland | With Warner, Ackland was a member of publisher Victor Gollancz
's Left Book Club
. Her connection with the Left Review brought her into contact with intellectuals such as Edgell Rickword
and his wife Johnnie |
Timeline
16 January 1929: The Listener began publication; it has been...
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16 January 1929
The Listener began publication; it has been said that it did more for the new 'thirties poetry in Britain than any of the specialized poetry magazines.
February 1936: The awesome trio of political theorist Harold...
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February 1936
The awesome trio
Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited.
5 October-1 November 1936: Ellen Wilkinson (nicknamed Red Ellen), Member...
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5 October-1 November 1936
Ellen Wilkinson
(nicknamed Red Ellen), Member of Parliament for the shipbuilding town of Jarrow, led two hundred unemployed men on a Hunger March from their hometown to London.
1937: The Reader's Union was established....
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1937
The Reader's Union
was established.
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