Labour Party

This time the male protagonist is Sir Anthony Nugent, Governor of the Punjab, and whereas Bell's first heroine came from a leisured life on family money, the new one has been playing a public...

The story sounds characteristic of EMM . Mary Lavender has been left a wealthy widow after ten years of marriage to a rich, heartless, middle-aged north-country industrialist. His will, which left her everything he had...

NB calls her central character, Elizabeth Jourdelay, submerged but battling. Elizabeth deceives her husband, not because she has a lover, but because she is attending a Labour Party meeting. Of the novel's three strands...

This is in part a memoir about personal grief. She juxtaposes the material details of loss (the watch still going, the unnaturally tidy desk), with the intimacy of memory, the abandoned plans for the future...

A modern commentator endorses ASS 's assessment in confirming that she is seldom noticed by literary historians. Charlotte Reid , who considers her in A Cursory Visit of Inspection to Annie S. Swan (Cencrastus...

Towards the end of her career, after 1913, KBG also produced articles for the The Labour Woman, as well as League Leaflet. She also wrote a regular column for the Manchester...

This pamphlet was reprinted in 1982 in a limited edition of 700, from a copy rescued from a rubbish bin in the Labour Party Library in the 1970s. One of the reprints was recently offered...

MAH published during the first half of the twentieth century, writing to support herself after a disastrous marriage and during a distinguished career in politics and the civil service. Many of her novels provide fictional...

An important and forceful left-wing intellectual (a shaper both of the Fabian Society and of the Labour Party ), BW wrote at the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century. Her...

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...

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...

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...

EM joined the Independent Labour Party (which had disaffiliated from the decreasingly radical Labour Party the previous summer); she soon began writing regularly for its paper, the New Leader.

AR was (like her parents before her) a member of the Fabian Society ; papers on her Fabian work are held by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of...

Her politics remained steadily Labour . She took a public stand against the military coup in Greece in 1967 and boycotted South African produce in protest against apartheid.