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Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | The final meeting of the Socialist International
was held in Vienna; Mary Agnes Hamilton
attended as one of the Labour Party
delegation from Britain. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 245 |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | In Arthur Henderson
: A Biography (on which she had been working since 1935) Mary Agnes Hamilton
celebrated a Labour Party
and disarmament leader, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Ashley, Maurice Percy. “Apostle of Disarmament”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1885, p. 177. 177 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. “Arthur Henderson”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1818, p. 1016. 1016 |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Mary Agnes Hamilton
issued through the Labour Book Service
an official booklet entitled The Labour Party
To-Day: What it is and How it Works. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
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... |
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 | 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 | 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/. |
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... |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 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... |
Dedications | Naomi Jacob | NJ
issued a novel entitled The Beloved Physician, dedicated to Ethel Bentham
, a fellow Labour Party
member, as the really and rightly Beloved Physician. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (13 March 1930): 211 Jacob, Naomi. Me: A Chronicle about Other People. Hutchinson. 205 |
politics | Naomi Jacob | NJ
began her political life as a Tory who thought Socialism deeply shocking, like all or most of the older generation of her very mixed family. She went out canvassing at elections, urging people to... |
politics | Naomi Jacob | NJ
, formerly an ardent socialist, blamed the decline of deference in postwar Britain not on social change but on the Labour
government. She adopted, in other words, the Tory attitudes of her immediate forebears. Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin). 175 |
Travel | Storm Jameson | Here she observed, together with her local contacts, the country's impoverished, violent, politically-uncertain climate. She deepened her friendship with Lilo Linke
, a young woman she had first met at the Labour Party
Conference held... |
politics | Storm Jameson | Jameson described the 1933 Labour
Conference at Hastings as haunted by the ghost of German Social Democracy, in the shape usually of a young doctor or lawyer, with a pale intelligent face, and no money... |
politics | Pamela Hansford Johnson | During the 1930s PHJ
was involved with left-wing politics. She was, she said, awakened to the reality of Nazism in 1934, Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner. 17 |
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