Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967.
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politics | Dora Russell | She prepared evidence with John Maynard Keynes
, St John Hutchinson
, and John St Loe Strachey
(father of writer Amabel Williams-Ellis
). At issue, ostensibly, was the inclusion of diagrams in the pamphlet. DR |
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 | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
turned down an opportunity to stand as Labour
candidate for Sheffield because her views now called for a total revolution of democratic procedures, including Parliament. Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967. 81 Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press, 1987. 125 |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She describes in detail the shock to her thinking caused by the Austro-Serbian conflict in which Russia seemed likely to join and Britain to join in support of Tsarist Russia. Fear rose and blocked thinking... |
politics | Dora Russell | DR
was involved with the Labour Party
, the Independent Labour Party
(ILP
), and their affiliates for most of her adult life. For instance, she attended the 1924 ILP Summer School
, where... |
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, 1990. 45 Montefiore, Dora. “Jane Hume Clapperton Speaks”. New Age, 4 May 1905, p. 288. 288 Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge, 2001. 166 Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Feminism, Sex and Morality. Tauris Parke, 2002. 172 |
politics | Virginia Woolf | VW
's feminist and socialist views went along with firm opposition to the war, and to the militaristic political structures that had produced the war, which is evident in many of her writings. Leonard was... |
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 | Maude Royden | MR
spoke in support of the NUWSS
's Election Fighting Fund policy at the meeting of the NUWSS and the Labour Party
at the Royal Albert Hall. “The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989. 100 |
politics | Virginia Woolf | But Woolf recorded in her diary in May 1940: Thinking is my fighting. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 694 |
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 | Maude Royden | Up until 1912, the NUWSS had been associated with the Liberal Party
; however, the Liberals' refusal to consider women's suffrage and the Labour Party
's recent concern for it caused the society to change... |
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 |
Author summary | Beatrice Webb | 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... |
Author summary | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 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... |
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