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Family and Intimate relationships | Angela Carter | Her mother, Olive (Farthing) Stalker
, came from a coal-mining district in south Yorkshire. She won a scholarship to a grammar school (from which she emerged speaking more correct English than her own mother) Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan. 17 |
politics | Angela Carter | AC
's politics were those of the left, following the Labour
convictions of her mother's family. During the 1960s she supported the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
and went on several of its Easter marches to... |
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 |
Characters | Lettice Cooper | The story is set in a town called Aire, which has been variously identified as Leeds and Sheffield. It depicts the socialist movement at a moment of transition: the rich industrialist Marsdens, the old-money... |
Literary responses | Victoria Cross | This novel was mentioned in the House of Commons
debates concerning gender equity in pay: the Labour
MP George Lansbury
commended it as an extraordinary book. Mitchell, Charlotte. Victoria Cross, 1868-1952: A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland. 1 |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Drabble | MD
's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble
, also attended Cambridge
, and served in the RAF
during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour
candidate for the Tory seat... |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | She used her position to advocate on behalf of women's suffrage, which she believed to be an integral part of socialism. She spoke to this effect on several occasions, including the annual conferences of the... |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | When she was invited to stand as a Labour Party
candidate in the 1918 general election, however, she declined, primarily on grounds of her advancing age. A Historical Dictionary of British Women. Europa. |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | The establishment of the League, which was the first attempt to form a separate organization for women within the Labour Party
, was met with mixed feelings by IOF
, who always believed that men's... |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
was most at home in the NUWSS because of her deep-rooted beliefs in constitutionalism and non-violence. Although she could not bring herself to adopt militant methods, as an executive committee member she worked to... |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | In cold weather leading up to the election of 6 December 1923, IOF
campaigned on behalf of her old friend Philip Snowden
, who was running as a candidate for the Labour Party
. The... |
Cultural formation | Antonia Fraser | Her family were highly educated, upper-class, Labour Party
supporters: English, although her Anglo-Irish father sometimes liked to declare himself an Irishman. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Elizabeth Pakenham, Francis Aungier Pakenham |
politics | Antonia Fraser | In December 1978 AF
voted Conservative, knowing little about Margaret Thatcher
but excited by the idea of a woman becoming Prime Minister for the first time. She later regretted it. In the 1980s she and... |
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