Watts, Janet. “Nina Bawden Obituary”. The Guardian.
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Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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politics | Nina Bawden | Inspired by hearing Aneurin Bevan
speak when she was a young evacuee in Wales, |
politics | Jane Hume Clapperton | She
was a member of the International Labour Party
(ILP), Waters, Chris. British Socialists and the Politics of Popular Culture, 1884-1914. Stanford University Press. 45 Montefiore, Dora. “Jane Hume Clapperton Speaks”. New Age, p. 288. 288 Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 166 Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Feminism, Sex and Morality. Tauris Parke. 172 |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | |
politics | George Bernard Shaw | GBS
was a prominent intellectual, social critic, and public speaker. From the mid-1880s he was a dominant force in the socialist Fabian Society
, a champion of the Labour Party
, and a vocal supporter... |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
's allegiance to the mainstream Labour Party
, begun during these years, was maintained throughout her life, although she was one of its outspoken internal critics, for instance on issues of unemployment. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | By 1936, the Committee advocated state-sponsored lunch programmes in schools, along with the provision of milk for pregnant women and for children under school age. ER
was joined in these efforts by the Fabian Barbara Drake |
politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Her opportunities for public speaking soon exploded. She was a Bristol delegate to the first annual conference of the Fabian Society in February this year; in June she was electioneering on behalf of Ben Tillett |
politics | Ali Smith | AS
largely avoids intervening with her authorial presence in her writing, and argues that there is no clear point of intersection between her work and her allegiances or identities, national, sexual, and so on. Gonda, Caroline. “An Other Country? Mapping Scottish/Lesbian/Writing”. Gendering the Nation: Studies in Modern Scottish Literature, edited by Christopher Whyte, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-24. 5 |
politics | Rose Macaulay | Sufficiently in sympathy with revolution to belong to the 1917 Club
, RM
was a pacifist between the wars, though she belonged to no particular group. In 1935 she voted for a (female) Labour Party |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
was even-handed in her actions. During the same year she outspokenly criticised Labour
idol Aneurin Bevan
for what she regarded as a childish display of machismo in irrelevant point-scoring against Churchill
. She accused... |
politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Meanwhile, KBG
returned to her socialist activism in 1924 after she had recovered from her breakdown. She began a lecture tour on 4 June that year, addressing socialist gatherings, and worked at selling her husband's... |
politics | Beatrice Webb | One result of the war was to reveal more clearly, to the Webbs as to others, just how unequal was British society. They became ready to advocate such equalizing measures as higher taxation for the... |
politics | Charlotte Despard | CD
stood as a pacifist Labour candidate on 14 December 1918, for the constituency she knew best, in Battersea, in the first British election in which women were entitled to do so, and was... |
politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
was delighted to see the Labour Party
come to power in the general election of 26 July 1945. This first majority Labour government in history was to succeed in establishing the first welfare state... |
politics | Elizabeth Taylor | Just after her mother's death and before her wedding, ET
took the momentous step of joining the Communist Party
. At this date she envisaged economic freedom as connected with freedom of speech, and with... |
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