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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Pat Arrowsmith | Though politics bulked much less large in her childhood than religion, it had some presence. Her mother was a snob about class, but an ill-defined pacifist, who later wore a CND
badge and donated money... |
Cultural formation | Zoë Fairbairns | She is an English feminist who has allowed little information about her family origins to be known. In a lecture given in Spain she said she came from a middle-class background, and in a lecture... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jackie Kay | |
politics | Sylvia Kantaris | SK
belonged to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
. She listed her politics in Contemporary Authors as surrealist. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
politics | Pat Arrowsmith | PA
worked as an organizer for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War
, the Committee of 100
and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND). Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black. |
politics | Pat Arrowsmith | PA
was secretary for the first Aldermaston March of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND), from London to the weapons establishment in Berkshire. Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press. 21 “A history of the CND logo”. CND: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. |
politics | Judith Kazantzis | She has been a feminist from the time that the women's movement began, and also a passionate campaigner against war, particularly nuclear war. She writes of these forces of destruction as a third parent /... |
politics | Marghanita Laski | Though ML
held left-wing political opinions, she described herself as not a good socialist (meaning that she shaped her opinions for herself, not adhering to a party line). She cared more for the generally humanist... |
politics | Doris Lessing | DL
helped to organise the first Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
march to the nuclear facility at Aldermaston, which took place on 4-7 April. Maslen, Elizabeth. Doris Lessing. Northcote House. viii |
politics | Muriel Box | During the late 1950s and early 1960s MB
became involved with several political causes. She joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND), and was arrested and roughed up by the police on a demonstration of... |
politics | Vera Brittain | In 1960 VB
began to support the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
. However, her husband's hopes of a peerage and her daughter's political career limited her involvement. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 506 |
politics | Ann Oakley | By her late teens she herself was a socialist. She was a member of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND), and later of the associated Committee of 100
. Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo. 21-2 |
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 | Ruth Rendell | During the 1980s RR
was active in support both of the Labour Party
and of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
. Later she was involved with Emily's List
(founded in February 1993 with the aim... |
politics | Jennifer Dawson | JD
was active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
. She wrote: Politics creep, burst inevitably into my novels. They then become shrill, rhetorical, routine, etc. Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press. 247-8 |