Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | The East London Federation of Suffragettes
(ELFS), a radical, militant, working-class feminist organisation begun by SP
and her supporters, held its first meeting at Bromley Public Hall, Bow Street, in East London. Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press. 41-3 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | Shortly after her release from Holloway
, where she had been imprisoned for sedition, SP
was formally expelled from the Communist Party of Great Britain
. Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press. 170, 216n123 Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 102 |
Textual Production | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
edited the weekly paper of the East London Federation of Suffragettes
, the Women's Dreadnought, named with some panache after a state-of-the-art British battleship. Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press. 68-9, 104, 185 Strachey, Lytton. Queen Victoria. Harcourt Brace. 73-4 Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 44, 109 Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press. 603 Dancyger, Irene. A World of Women: An Illustrated History of Women’s Magazines. Gill and Macmillan. 112 Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press. 37 |
Textual Production | Sylvia Pankhurst | Publishing through the Workers' Socialist Federation
, SP
released Housing and the Workers' Revolution: Housing in Capitalist Britain and Bolshevik Russia. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | She was several times invited to stand for election to parliament, but replied that she did not think herself well suited to the necessary compromises of parliamentary politics. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 199 |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lesley Storm | Before the play's action begins, Fay Edwards's husband of five years, Bryan, has left her and their baby and disappeared as a Communist Party
member to the Soviet Union. Now, fourteen months later, a... |
politics | Elizabeth Taylor | Just after her mother's death and before her wedding, ET
took the momentous step of joining the Communist Party
. At this date she envisaged economic freedom as connected with freedom of speech, and with... |
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. 74-6 |
Literary Setting | Edith Templeton | |
Publishing | Sylvia Townsend Warner | During the 1930s, STW
and Valentine Ackland both wrote political critique for Time and Tide, the New Statesman, the News Chronicle, Woman Today (the paper of the World Women's Committee Against Fascism and War |
politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | STW
and Ackland, believing that Communism was the only defence against Fascism, joined the Communist Party
. Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora. 55 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Evelyn Waugh | The protagonist of these books, Guy Crouchback, is a middle-aged Roman Catholic, divorced from his wife, Virginia (though not in the eyes of the Church
, which therefore does not regard a sexual fling with... |
politics | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
was recruited into the British Communist Party
while she was still a member of the Labour Party
; she remained a Communist Party member for the rest of her life. Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking. 359 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Fay Weldon | Whereas Big Women looked backwards to 1971, the new novel is set just into the future, in 2013. Frances Prideaux, its protagonist, is the now eighty-year-old alter ego and imaginary sister of the author FW |
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