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politics | Dora Russell | She also carefully considered the future of her relationship with Bertrand Russell
. She observes in her memoir: I had no anxiety about allying myself with his political views or way of life. I was... |
politics | Beatrice Webb | The name reflects a panic about national absence of efficiency, a panic aroused by experience in the Second South African War. The club lasted for about five years, meeting at a tavern and numbering among... |
politics | Marghanita Laski | Though ML
held left-wing political opinions, she described herself as not a good socialist (meaning that she shaped her opinions for herself, not adhering to a party line). She cared more for the generally humanist... |
politics | Dora Russell | It featured such speakers as Vera Brittain
, Ethel Mannin
, Naomi Mitchison
, Marie Stopes
, Desmond MacCarthy
, Bertrand Russell
, and G. B. Shaw
. Papers given included DR
's Marriage and... |
politics | Vera Brittain | She wrote later in her diary that her mind had been made up more by Bertrand Russell
's pamphlet Which Way to Peace? than by anything that Mumford had said. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 357 |
politics | Ethel Sidgwick | The Congress, held from 28 April to 1 May, attracted 1,200 women from twelve countries, both warring and neutral, to discuss means of achieving peace. Others meeting with the delegates on the subsequent peace tour... |
politics | Mary Butts | MB
was a pacifist who sympathised strongly with the position of conscientious objectors. Believing that conscription was a sign of the collective insanity that has come over the world, Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company. 6 |
Author summary | Lady Ottoline Morrell | LOM
is best known as an early twentieth-century literary hostess who appears frequently in the memoirs, biographies, and fictions written by her guests. She aspired to be a writer herself, and she produced journals, letters... |
Publishing | Vernon Lee | VL
's political stance was seen as dangerously unpatriotic: only a few of her essays were published by the Labour Leader, Nation, and New Statesman. In letter to Havelock Ellis
in September... |
Reception | May Sinclair | Bertrand Russell
(after writing to MS
to let her know he was doing so) reviewed it for the Nation with what biographer Suzanne Raitt
calls acclaim. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 42n1 |
Residence | Elizabeth von Arnim | Francis's brother, Bertrand Russell
, lived with them for a short while before he was imprisoned for engaging in pacifist journalism. Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head. 203-4 |
Residence | Amabel Williams-Ellis | Until a fire destroyed it in December 1951, the Williams-Ellises lived mainly at his family home, Plâs Brondanw in Portmeirion, North Wales, the village which Clough was recreating in the Italianate style. Guests at... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth von Arnim | She played with the epistolary form at several points throughout her writing career. She employed the form in Christine (1917), as well as in several unpublished experiments. For these experiments she recruited male writers such... |
Textual Features | Vernon Lee | This small volume was issued by Kegan Paul
and E. P. Dutton
's Today and Tomorrow Series; other authors to publish here included Rebecca West
, Bertrand Russell
, and J. B. S. Haldane
... |
Textual Features | Mildred Cable | This book also addresses the importance of literacy throughout the world. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 195 Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. The Book which Demands a Verdict. S. C. M. Press. 111 |
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