Ethel L. Voynich papers, 1928-1948. http://www.findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMfer02.xq?_id=loc.music.eadmus.mu010020&_faSection=overview&_faSubsection=bioghist.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Fay Weldon | Before her next novel (though she places the memory in the 1980s) FW
planned a historical novel. She was going to set it a year or two before the First World War, in a period... |
politics | Harriet Shaw Weaver | She was elected to the Marylebone Labour Party committee in 1936. In a programme of self-education about labour and capitalism, she read Marx
's Das Kapital, Sidney
and Beatrice Webb
's Soviet Communism: A... |
Textual Production | Ethel Lilian Voynich | Before publishing novels of her own, ELV
started in the literary field as a translator, largely of texts by writers she was connected to through her revolutionary involvement. |
Literary responses | May Sinclair | Reviews were almost all positive. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 255 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Raine | KR
's poetry, which focusses on archetypal forms of being, is influenced by Swedenborg
and the Neo-Platonists. She was also fascinated by the avant-garde movements of her era: Bloomsbury Humanism, Freud
ianism, Wittgenstein
's and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Tillie Olsen | The future TO
bore a daughter with her first husband, Abe Goldfarb
. They named her Karla Barucha Goldfarb
after Karl Marx
; the birth certificate again called Tillie Matilda. Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press. 74 |
Travel | Tillie Olsen | |
Education | Kathleen Nott | She found her new choice of PPE was not entirely satisfying. She later observed that the three components were not effectively connected with each other. Set books included Marx
's Das Kapital. Nott, Kathleen. Philosophy and Human Nature. New York University Press. 166 |
Textual Features | Harriet Martineau | HM
remained throughout her life a staunch defender of free trade principles and government non-interference generally. She argued in one of her letters to the US National Antislavery Standard in 1861, for instance, that Protection... |
politics | Dora Marsden | In this new course Marsden was strongly influenced by the work of philosopher Max Stirner
(1806-56), who published The Ego and His Own in 1845. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Reception | May Kendall | Rowntree's biographer Asa Briggs
credits Kendall's affective writing with bringing Seebohm Rowntree
's The Human Needs of Labourto life; he describes her as someone who always gave loyal and devoted service. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 123 Briggs, Asa. Seebohm Rowntree. Longmans. 84 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Kavanagh | Later in his eventful life he entered into a common-law marriage with a woman named Marie Rose, with whom he had three children. He knew Thomas Carlyle
and he apparently rented rooms to Karl Marx |
Textual Production | Luce Irigaray | Along with her earlier Amante marine (addressed to Friedrich Nietzsche
), a book on Martin Heidegger
which appeared in 1983, and a projected fourth book (which was to have linked Marx
with the element of... |
Textual Production | Henrik Ibsen | Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx
) played Nora and Aveling played Torvald. They were joined by May Morris
(daughter of William Morris
) as Mrs Linde and Bernard Shaw
as Krogstad. Durbach, Errol. “A century of Ibsen criticism”. The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen, edited by James McFarlane and James McFarlane, Cambridge University Press, pp. 233-51. 233-4 |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She knew most of the leaders of this group, to which she gives several pages in her memoirs. She later came to regard it, however, as a cocoon or cell that kept those inside it... |
Timeline
Late November 1842: Friedrich Engels arrived in Manchester at...
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Late November 1842
Friedrich Engels
arrived in Manchester at his father's behest to study English manufacturing and business practices.
21 February 1848: Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx published...
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21 February 1848
Friedrich Engels
and Karl Marx
published their Manifesto of the Communist Party, often known as the Communist Manifesto.
9 November 1850: Helen MacFarlane's first English translation...
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9 November 1850
Helen MacFarlane
's first English translation of the Communist Manifesto began serialization in Harney
's weekly The Red Republican; it ran until 30 November. It was said to be written by Citizens Charles Marx
and Frederic Engels.
16 January 1855: Eleanor Marx, leading British socialist (and...
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16 January 1855
4 September 1867: The first volume of Karl Marx's analysis...
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4 September 1867
The first volume of Karl Marx
's analysis of social and economic history, Das Kapital, was published.
1871: At sixteen years of age Eleanor Marx was...
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1871
At sixteen years of age Eleanor Marx
was already acting as her father
's personal secretary, as well as travelling with him to various international conferences.
18 March 1871: The rule of the Paris Commune began when...
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18 March 1871
The rule of the ParisCommune
began when Paris workers resisted the provisional National Assembly
's efforts to disarm the city by seizing firearms and 2,000 cannons from the National Guard.
11 April 1871: The Paris Commune established the Union of...
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11 April 1871
The Paris Commune established the Union of Women for the Defence of Paris
, co-founded by Elisabeth Dmitrieff
(a contact of Karl Marx
) and Louise Michel
, an anarchist schoolteacher and medical worker.
1878: William Swan Sonnenschein and J. Archibald...
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1878
William Swan Sonnenschein
and J. Archibald Allen
formed a partnership in the publishing firm of Swan Sonnenschein and Allen
, at 15 Paternoster Square, London.
1896: Eleanor Marx edited a collection of her father's...
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1896
Eleanor Marx
edited a collection of her father
's essays, Revolution and Counter-Revolutions or Germany in 1848, as Eleanor Marx Aveling.
31 March 1898: Eleanor Marx, socialist, feminist, and writer,...
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31 March 1898
Eleanor Marx
, socialist, feminist, and writer, committed suicide.
February 1936: The awesome trio of political theorist Harold...
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February 1936
The awesome trio of political theorist Harold Laski
, publisher Victor Gollancz
, and writer and Labour MP John Strachey
established the Left Book Club (LBC)
.
Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited.
Texts
Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. Marx, Engels: On Literature and Art. Progress Publishers, 1976.