Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press.
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Publishing | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
announced her departure from the Communist Party
(from which she had been expelled) in an article written for the Dreadnought. Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press. 173 |
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 |
Publishing | Sylvia Pankhurst | In 1920, she published (again through the Workers' Socialist Federation
) Rebel Ireland: Thoughts on Easter Week 1916, which was reprinted from the original in the Workers' Dreadnought. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
politics | Willa Muir | |
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 |
politics | Iris Murdoch | IM
once said that she was a Communist from the age of thirteen; it was a natural allegiance in the thirties for anyone growing up in an idealistic and civic-minded milieu. Her early political thinking... |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | The East London Federation of Suffragettes
was renamed the Workers' Suffrage Federation
in March 1916, to indicate its double focus on suffrage and activism for peace. In May 1918 it was renamed the Workers' Socialist Federation |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | After 1918 SP
was the honorary secretary of the Workers' Socialist Federation
(her former suffrage organisation). Politically transformed by the Russian revolution, she had ceased to believe that suffrage and the electoral process held any... |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | Deeply involved in the political struggles among labour groups in Britain between 1917 and 1924, SP
was ultimately unsuccessful in achieving her goals. At a June 1920 conference, the Workers' Socialist Federation
reconstituted itself as... |
politics | Charlotte Despard | 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... |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | The competing labour groups had resolved themselves into the Communist Party of Great Britain
(CPGB), and SP
's attempts to develop the CP (BSTI)
into a left-wing faction of the party had failed. Much of... |
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 | Tillie Olsen | Before she left school Tillie parted company with her father over politics. He was now a leading Omaha Socialist; the Communists were accusing the Socialists of pandering to capitalism; Tillie sided with the Communists
... |
politics | Valentine Ackland | VA
and Warner
joined the Communist Party
, believing, like many of their contemporaries, that Communism offered the best or only defence against encroaching Fascism. Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora. 55 Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Introduction”. Letters: Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited by William Maxwell, Chatto and Windus, p. vii - xvii. xiv |
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 |
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