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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
's involvement with the socialist and feminist movements of the day brought her into close contact with several notable activists and revolutionaries. Through the Fabian Society
, she interacted with Beatrice
and Sidney Webb |
politics | George Egerton | Two days before Britain declared war on Germany, GE
attended a peaceful protest in Trafalgar Square, at which socialists Keir Hardie
and Henry Hyndman
, and Scottish nationalist R. B. Cunninghame Graham
... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | During her time with the WSPU, MG
worked with Christabel Pankhurst
(who was twenty-four when Gawthorpe first met her, before she had yet met Isabella Ford
), whom, like Ethel Snowden
, she knew from... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | They had met through socialist circles the previous autumn when Keir Hardie
invited Conway to a gathering at the Glasier family's home while both were attending the Trades Union Congress
meeting in Glasgow. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited. 57 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
was devastated by her husband's death, but later she began to experience visions of his continuing presence (as she did of her son's presence after he too died). Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research. 190:125 Glasier, Katharine Bruce. The Glen Book. London. 79 |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Her involvement in socialist circles led her to acquaintance with Sidney
and Beatrice Webb
, Edward Hulton
(editor of the Sunday Chronicle), and Robert Blatchford
, for whom she wrote several articles. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited. 71 |
Literary responses | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Unfortunately, KBG
's efforts to mediate were not rewarded with concilliation. Instead, her column met with opposition from both suffragette and socialist circles, particularly over its handling of the suffrage issue. Isabella Ford
, for... |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Her subject, Mary Reid MacArthur
, 1880-1921 (wife of the trade unionist Will Anderson
, who died only two years before her), had done sterling work in the campaigns to end sweated labour and to... |
politics | Margaret Harkness | She was an active member of various socialist parties between 1887 and 1891, including the Social Democratic Federation
and the Independent Labour Party
, though she later called socialism both foolish and wrong. Goode, John. “Margaret Harkness and the Socialist Novel”. The Socialist Novel in Britain: Towards the Recovery of a Tradition, edited by H. Gustav Klaus, Harvester Press, pp. 45-66. 49 |
Textual Production | Emmeline Pankhurst | The other contributors to this important collection were Shaw himself (again pseudonymous) and Mabel Atkinson
, Florence Balgarnie
, Eva Gore-Booth
, Robert F. Cholmeley
, Charlotte Despard
, Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, Keir Hardie |
Education | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
grew up amidst the political discussions of her parents' home. An intimate friend, politician Keir Hardie
, later remarked of this informal education: So that is what is the matter with you! You heard... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Pankhurst | While in London she became intimate with the labour politician Keir Hardie
, a long-time friend of her parents. He was her lover and, perhaps more importantly, her political mentor from approximately 1904 to 1912... |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | Beginning in 1912, and inspired by Keir Hardie
's dedication to the poor, SP
directed her political efforts at improving conditions for Cockney or working women in London's East End; this commitment puzzled her... |
Textual Production | Sylvia Pankhurst | In an unpublished story written in 1932, SP
fictionalises a love triangle between herself, her mother, and Keir Hardie
, harking back to life events of 1904. Biographer Barbara Winslow
argues that the depiction of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sylvia Pankhurst |
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