Communist Party

VA and Warner joined the Communist Party , believing, like many of their contemporaries, that Communism offered the best or only defence against encroaching Fascism.

The first poem in this volume, like Meeting the Comet, treats a birth-defect—but an unmatching pair of ears, seen from the point of view of the mother, not the baby, is more lightly handled...

During her first marriage, HA criticised the German women's movement for interesting itself in social, or women's issues without considering the broader political causes and consequences which made them of concern to men as well...

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.John Foxe gave it a still wider...

SB 's political activities included steady opposition to France's colonial war in Algeria, and lifelong support for socialism and feminism. Elaine Showalter has written that SB 's feminist credentials stem from her writing, and...

Several of PSB 's journeys between China and the USA were undertaken for unwelcome medical purposes. Having been in America for undergraduate study, she returned there in 1920 to have a benign tumour removed after...

PSB taught at a number of Chinese universities. Early in her first marriage (as well as entertaining for her husband and beginning to write seriously) she taught intermittently from 1925 at Nanjing University (which was...

Though never a thorough-going pacifist, PSB worked in the 1930s with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom . As an anti-ideologue, she had the experience in the 1950s of being stigmatized as...

Hilary Spurling calls this text, a favourite of Mao Zedong and the Communist Party , a hugely popular saga of resistance against a corrupt and unjust government by a band of thirteenth-century outlaws.

The three daughters of present-day China might well remind readers of the three sons of Wang in The Good Earth trilogy, and Buck had begun with Letter from Peking, 1957, on a project of...

Antigona comes from the province of Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia (from the hamlet of Drenica near Mitrovica), but calls herself a Malësi from the impenetrable mountains that span four countries: Albania, Serbia,...

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...

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...

CD stood as a pacifist Labour candidate on 14 December 1918, for the constituency she knew best, in Battersea, in the first British election in which women were entitled to do so, and was...

This is partly a book about change and modernization. RF welcomed particularly the stamping out of tribal conflict and corruption in Iran, and the tolerance newly extended to Jews , Christians , and Zoroastrians