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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... |
politics | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
was a member of the British Labour Party
. She volunteered as a clerk at her local party office in Marylebone, and participated in May Day demonstrations. Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking. 328, 366 |
politics | J. K. Rowling | She is not slow to take a public political stance. To her 11 million followers on Twitter
, she tweeted before the 2016 referendum on Britain's leaving or remaining within the European Union (Brexit) that... |
politics | Kate Parry Frye | The Frye family was actively political throughout KPF
's formative years, mostly on behalf of the Liberal Party
: her mother
expected Kate to attend the North Kensington Women's Liberal Association
meetings hosted in the... |
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 | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
was recruited into the British Communist Party
while she was still a member of the Labour Party
; she remained a Communist Party member for the rest of her life. Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking. 359 |
politics | Lady Margaret Sackville | UDC activities played an important role in the decline of the Liberal Party
and the rise of the Labour Party
: Joining the UDC became a sort of half-way house between leaving the Liberals and... |
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. 81 Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press. 125 |
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 | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She knew most of the leaders of this group, to which she gives several pages in her memoirs. She later came to regard it, however, as a cocoon or cell that kept those inside it... |
politics | Beatrice Webb | BW
, with her husband
, founded the Fabian Research Department
(ancestor of the Labour Party
's department of the same name), and began chairing its many subcommittees. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Radice, Lisanne. Beatrice and Sidney Webb: Fabian Socialists. St Martin’s Press. 196, 206 |
politics | Judith Kazantzis | JK
joined the women's movement as soon as she read about it, and was active in London during the 1970s as a member of the first Women's Liberation Workshop
, the Labour Party
, and... |
Other Life Event | Sylvia Pankhurst | The Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Committee
, supported by Labour Party
politicians Tony Benn
, Margaret Beckett
, and Gordon Brown
, lobbied for a statue of SP
to be chosen to fill the vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square. “Pass Notes”. The Guardian, p. 3. 3 |
Occupation | Nina Bawden | 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... |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 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... |
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