Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
1966
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Employer | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
sat as Labour
Member of Parliament for Blackburn in Lancashire. She won her seat in the Flapper Election and lost it in the landslide victory of the National Coalition
government on 27 October 1931. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black. 1966 Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 180 |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Agnes Hamilton | This novel is the love story of Jane Heriot, but also the story of the shaping of her mind. (In novels, observes Jane, most women have no minds to speak of.) Jane is working as... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad, Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 7 |
politics | Graham Greene | GG
joined the British Communist Party
on a whim for a period of about a month in 1925, probably paying dues of a shilling or so for his brief membership. This was an aberration, since... |
politics | Eva Gore-Booth | The women formed this committee (a break-away group from the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage
) after backing Labour
candidate David Shackleton
in a by-election. In exchange for the support of EGB
... |
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 |
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