Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009.
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Characters | Lettice Cooper | The story is set in a town called Aire, which has been variously identified as Leeds and Sheffield. It depicts the socialist movement at a moment of transition: the rich industrialist Marsdens, the old-money... |
Education | Iris Murdoch | IM
was offered a scholarship to continue her studies in the United States, but was unable to accept, as she was denied a visa on the grounds of her former involvement with the Communist Party |
Education | Iris Murdoch | At the same time as applying for her place at Newnham, she kept her options open by applying for a lectureship at Sheffield University
and a place at Vassar
in New York State, as... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Taylor | Through the Communist PartyET
met Raymond or Ray Russell
, a railwayman's son who was apprenticed in the furniture-making business but longed to be a painter. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009. 74-6 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Pankhurst | CP
publicly announced that Sylvia Pankhurst
's East London Federation
would no longer be attached to the WSPU
. Marcus, Jane, editor. “Introduction / Appendix”. Suffrage and the Pankhursts, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, pp. 1 - 17, 306. 315 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Pankhurst | In January 1914, CP
called Sylvia
to Paris to demand that Sylvia's East London Federation
should break its ties to the WSPU
. Although their mother's suffragist impulse had originally grown in close relation to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Tillie Olsen | They shared their involvement in Communist
politics. Communists, however, did not recognize the prohibitions of bourgeois morality and Tillie continued to make love with other men besides her husband. Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010. 67, 65 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jackie Kay | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jackie Kay | JK
's adoptive father, John Kay
, a Glaswegian and a draughtsman by trade, left this job to become a full-time Communist Party
worker. Kay, Jackie. Red Dust Road. Pan Macmillan, 2010. 18 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
met the businessman and would-be artist Wogan Philipps
while living in Newcastle with her first husband. Becoming a lifelong Communist and a farmer during the Spanish Civil War, Philipps was the only Communist Party |
Family and Intimate relationships | Deborah Levy | DL
's father, Norman Levy
, was the twin youngest child of Lithuanian immigrants. He was a teacher and an anti-apartheid campaigner: a Communist
, a member of organizations like the banned African National Congress |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Pankhurst | From this point the East London Federation of Suffragettes
dropped its connection with the WSPU. In 1916, on hearing about an anti-conscription rally organized by Sylvia, Emmeline Pankhurst
cabled from America: Strongly repudiate Sylvia's foolish... |
Fictionalization | Anne Askew | Knowledge of AA
's writing spread rapidly. The reactionary Stephen Gardiner
, Bishop of Winchester, complained on 6 June 1547 of the number of copies in circulation. Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, 1996. xxviii-xxix |
Literary responses | Nancy Cunard | Although NC
had received so much press attention during her research, there were not many reviews of NEGRO. The United States press largely ignored it. In London it was reviewed by the Daily Worker... |
Literary Setting | Edith Templeton |
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