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politics | Pearl S. Buck | Though never a thorough-going pacifist, PSB
worked in the 1930s with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
. Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge University Press, 1996. 185-6 |
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, 1933. 199 |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | |
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 | 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, 1996. 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, 1996. 170, 216n123 Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967. 102 |
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 | Doris Lessing | DL
became a member of the British Communist Party
. The same year she visited the USSR as a delegate of the Authors' World Peace Appeal
. Norton-Taylor, Richard. “MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal”. theguardian, 21 Aug. 2015. Fishburn, Katherine. Doris Lessing: Life, Work, and Criticism. York Press, 1987, . 9 |
politics | Doris Lessing | DL
was one of those who resigned their membership in the British Communist Party
after the Hungarian Revolution was crushed, despite an appeal from Party officials to change her mind. Maslen, Elizabeth. Doris Lessing. Northcote House, 1994. viii Norton-Taylor, Richard. “MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal”. theguardian, 21 Aug. 2015. |
Occupation | Pearl S. Buck | 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... |
Occupation | Flannery O'Connor | FOC
worked as a teaching assistant while she studied for her MFA, Gooch, Brad. Flannery. Little, Brown and Co., 2009. 140 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Cecily Mackworth | CM
was in Berlin when fire was set to the Reichstag
or parliament on 27 February 1933. This caused political panic and gains for the young Adolf Hitler
. It was understood that the Nazis |
Material Conditions of Writing | Tillie Olsen | After marrying Abe Goldfarb
at a time of near-starvation for many American workers, the future TO
wrote dramatic and publishable journalism under the pseudonym of T(h)eresa Landale in support of the Communist Party
. Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010. 64 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Tillie Olsen |
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