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.
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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On his deathbed, Harry...
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
KBG
dedicated the collection to the ILPin the faith and comradeship of socialism, the hope of the world.
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.
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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.
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.
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The party leader, James Maxton
, suggested that EM
ought to write instead the...
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...
Purvis, June. Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography. Routledge, 2002.
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Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.
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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.
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.
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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.
Margaret McMillan
, socialist, educationist, and sister and biographer of Rachel McMillan
, published an important work in social studies entitled Labour and Childhood.
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.
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.