Croft, Andy. “Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 205-25.
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Independent Labour Party
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Ethel Mannin | This novel focuses on the romance between Elspeth's niece, Chloe, and Harry Winchell, an ILP
member. But their love is prevented by class difference and Harry's impending death from tuberculosis. |
| death | Sylvia Pankhurst | On the wall above her deathbed hung an election manifesto written by her father
when he was a candidate for the Independent Labour Party
in Manchester in 1895. Emperor Haile Selassie
ensured that she should... |
| Dedications | Katharine Bruce Glasier | These short stories had previously been published in various newspapers and magazines. Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998. 190:124 Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998. front matter Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998. 190:124 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | John Bruce Glasier, also a founding member of the Independent Labour Party
and NAC
, was a devoted socialist like KBG
, an aspiring poet, a determined agnostic, and at the end of his life... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Angela Carter | Her husband, AC
's maternal grandfather, had both educated and radicalised himself while serving with the British army in India, and became a trade-unionist and member of the Independent Labour Party
. Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 15-17, 20 |
| Friends, Associates | Ethel Mannin | Reynolds was a friend of Mahatma Gandhi
, and had been entrusted with Gandhi's historic letter to the British viceroy during the Civil Disobedience Campaign. Huxter, Robert. Reg and Ethel. Sessions Book Trust, 1992. 56 Croft, Andy. “Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 205-25. 217 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Amabel Williams-Ellis | This work was shaped by her observations at Independent Labour Party
summer schools; she incorporates portraits of her then-colleagues the future Fascist Oswald Mosley
and Labour leader Aneurin Bevan
. The novel is concerned with... |
| Literary responses | Eleanor Rathbone | Opponents of ER
's plans included members of the Conservative
, Liberal
, and Labour
parties, though the Independent Labour Party
gave the plans its official support in 1926. In 1925 some members of the... |
| Literary responses | Ethel Mannin | The ILP
's New Leader called this novel far removed . . . from the mass conflicts of the age. Croft, Andy. “Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 205-25. 214 |
| Literary responses | Ali Smith | The chair of the judges, Shami Chakrabarti
(an Independent Labour Party
politician, then a director of Liberty
, formerly the National Council for Civil Liberties) described AS
's work as a tender, brilliant, and witty... |
| Occupation | Katharine Bruce Glasier | During her husband
's illness, between autumn 1916 and April 1921, KBG
took over the editorship of The Labour Leader, the prime propaganda vessel of the Independent Labour Party
. In this time she... |
| Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She admired the Viennese civic institutions, endured sniping by the Independent Labour Party
against the Labour Party, and was disturbed at the impotence and divided and distracted mind of the German delegations. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944. 245 |
| Occupation | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
was elected to the Manchester School Board under the aegis of the Independent Labour Party
; she served on it until 1903. Purvis, June. Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography. Routledge, 2002. 57 Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969. 44 |
| politics | Ethel Mannin | EM
joined the Independent Labour Party
(which had disaffiliated from the decreasingly radical Labour Party
the previous summer); she soon began writing regularly for its paper, the New Leader. Croft, Andy. “Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 205-25. 212 |
| politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
was elected to the National Administrative Council
of the Independent Labour Party
, a position she held for four years, until April 1907. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell, 1989. xi, 89 |
Timeline
1877
By this date, female spiritualist healer Chandos Leigh Hunt
was amazingly popular.
10 October 1891
The newspaper of the emerging Independent Labour Party
, The Labour Leader, first appeared. It ran until 28 September 1922, after which the title changed to the New Leader.
7 July 1892
In the British general election of this month, James Keir Hardie
and two other candidates became the first independent Labour Members of Parliament.
13 January 1893
The Independent Labour Party
led by James Keir Hardie
, Member of Parliament for West Ham South, was officially founded in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
Summer1906
The Women's Social and Political Union
moved its headquarters to London; this relocation was emblematic of its shift away from its Independent Labour Party
and working-class origins.
By mid-June 1907
Margaret McMillan
, socialist, educationist, and sister and biographer of Rachel McMillan
, published an important work in social studies entitled Labour and Childhood.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive, http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(14 June 1907): 191
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Margaret and Rachel McMillan
November 1907
Charlotte Despard
and Teresa Billington Greig
left the Women's Social and Political Union
to form the Women's Freedom League
.
May 1916
The British Parliament
took the unpopular decision to institute conscription for the armed forces (which had been standard practice in other European countries but not in the UK); the Military Service Act followed.
June 1925
The Independent Labour Party
founded an Arts Guild
to promote socialist drama and performance.
30 July 1932
The Independent Labour Party
, increasingly disillusioned with the Labour Party
's movement towards the centre, took a decision to disaffiliate from its own larger and more successful offspring.
Texts
Glasier, Katharine Bruce. Dolly-Logues. Independent Labour Party, 1926.
Glasier, Katharine Bruce. Socialism and the Home. Independent Labour Party, 1909.
Glasier, Katharine Bruce. Socialism for Beginners. Independent Labour Party, 1929.
Glasier, Katharine Bruce. Socialism for Children. Independent Labour Party, 1902.
Glasier, Katharine Bruce. Tales from the Derbyshire Hills. Independent Labour Party, 1907.