Sengupta, Padmini. Sarojini Naidu: A Biography. Asia Publishing House.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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politics | Sarojini Naidu | Mahatma Gandhi
and several of his followers, including SN
, were arrested and imprisoned the day after he gave his Quit India speech before thousands of people in Bombay. Sengupta, Padmini. Sarojini Naidu: A Biography. Asia Publishing House. 277 |
Travel | Sarojini Naidu | From about 1912, when she threw herself into politics almost full-time, SN
spent most of her time away from her family. Her political position took her as a delegate on a number of national and... |
Friends, Associates | Sarojini Naidu | SN
first met Mahatma Gandhi
in London when he came to organise an ambulance unit soon after the outbreak of the First World War. Dustoor, Phiroze Edulji. Sarojini Naidu. Rao and Raghavan. 3 Sengupta, Padmini. Sarojini Naidu: A Biography. Asia Publishing House. 86-8 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jan Morris | This time the story begins with Kitchener
's re-taking of Khartoum, and ends with the death in 1965 of Winston Churchill
, presented as the last imperialist. In it JM
appeals to her own... |
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. 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, pp. 205-25. 217 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ethel Mannin | This book also significantly revises EM
's earlier opinion on the Spanish Civil War, saying that had Republican Spain shown no resistance, this horror would have been spared. Stee, Loretta. “Gandhian Non-Violence in Works of Ethel Mannin and Virginia Woolf”. Literature of Region and Nation: Proceedings of the 6th International Literature of Region and Nation Conference, University of New Brunswick in Saint John, edited by Winnifred M. Bogaards, University of New Brunswick in Saint John, pp. 163-80. 169 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edith Lyttelton | EL
's account of India is the shortest, but the most transparent in the imperial slant to its attitudes. As she toured New Delhi, she pondered ignorantly [her word] on the whole situation, concluding... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Kingsford | Despite this unfavourable mainstream review, the work exerted a lasting influence in vegetarian and alternative religious circles: After first reading Henry Salt
's Plea for Vegetarianism, Mahatma Gandhi
went on to rank AK
's... |
Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | Among those drafted to form the Mandate's Honorary Council in Britain were prominent politicians, clergy, feminists, and writers such as Margaret Ashton
, Margaret Bondfield
, Vera Brittain
, Arthur Henderson
, Laurence Housman
,... |
Education | Bessie Head | She continued with self-education after she left school, through the M. L. Sultan Library
, a local institution donated to the community by a wealthy merchant of Indian origin, which filled a gap for coloured... |
politics | Bessie Head | BH
found that Cape Coloured people were far more politically aware than those in Durban, conscious of and increasingly resistant to being subject as a group to discriminatory laws. They also had an internal class... |
Cultural formation | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Katharine Conway, later KBG
, was born to an English, white, minister's family, who considering their middle-class status were relatively poor. She was the product of her parents' views on equality of educational opportunities for... |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | This book concentrates on those of the princely states which RF
had visited (the majority) and their often highly characterful as well as flamboyantly wealthy rulers. Relying mostly on her own experience, with some digressions... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Despard | CD
met Gandhi
in London in 1914, and was also a good friend of Irish patriot Constance Markiewicz
. “Papers of Charlotte Despard”. AIM25: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library. |
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