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Nevertheless she was constantly painting, pursuing her ambition to be an artist. She also worked for the Labour Party . During the 1970s she worked as a home tutor for the Inner London Education Authority

The narrator of her novel Afternoon of a Good Woman, 1976, is also a magistrate. NB wrote, I was a political appointment, in the sense that the local Labour Party , asked to put...

Having earned her bread by work as assistant in a university history department, and as writer, translator, and journalist, MAH entered politics. Journalism continued to provide her main source of income until 1929, and her...

During 1929-31 she also served as a member of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service . In 1931 she was elected to the parliamentary executive of the Labour Party and often spoke for the...

Working for the Labour Party in summer 1945, CM wrote a number of reports on current and remembered political issues: among other things she covered the fishing industry (ten thousand words), the government of New...

Under her editorship the list included Frances Cornford , Joan Adeney Easdale , Ida Graves , Vita Sackville-West , Margaret Thomas (as editor), Julian Bell , Cecil Day-Lewis , John Lehmann , F. L. Lucas

In a whole series of comic novels set in Barsetshire, AT deliberately recreated an Anthony-Trollope -like, present-day yet almost period world of the country gentry and the cathedral close. She called herself a sardonic...

The novel records the social and political changes taking place in Hampstead in the 1960s, including the new Labour government, council housing, and increased interaction between people of different classes and racial backgrounds.

AT 's next novel, Peace Breaks Out, 1946, continues her investigation into the new Britain. The election which brought Labour to power (on 26 July 1945) is fought out in Barsetshire between the...

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.

Opponents of ER 's plans included members of the Conservative , Liberal , and Labour parties, though the Independent Labour Party gave the plans its official support in 1926. In 1925 some members of the...

Stalwarts of the Labour Party (where NM 's husband had his career to think of) hated We Have Been Warned. Though NM had explicitly denied that she spoke for any political group whatever, an...

BW formed the Half-Circle Club for wives of Labour MPs.

After they moved to Mill Hill, the Boxes became good friends of the Labour politicians Aneurin Bevan and Jennie Lee , through the fact that the two husbands shared the same physiotherapist. They were...

In an atmosphere of social, political, and artistic upheaval, art and politics merged in the public mind, and Bloomsbury was perceived as politically and aesthetically revolutionary. Stansky quotes a critic writing in the Daily Herald...