Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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politics | Stella Benson | SB
became a member of a League of NationsCommittee on the International Traffic in Women
. Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan. 283 |
politics | Stella Benson | The society voted to send the report to the Hong Kong government, and then, if necessary, to Westminster. The Governor of Hong Kong, Sir William Peel
, was furious, called SB
hysterical, and snubbed her... |
politics | Vera Brittain | She and Holtby attended a number of League of Nations
Assemblies, including the one held in August 1926 at Geneva in Switzerland, when Germany was accepted into the League. After 1923 these trips were... |
Publishing | Vera Brittain | By the mid 1920s, VB
was an established journalist who published frequently in Time and Tide (she was their League of Nations
correspondent) as well as in the Yorkshire Post, Manchester Guardian, Foreign... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Despard | The diaries cover her part (including her production of journalism) in the political drives towards women's suffrage, pacifism, Irish independence, socialism, penal reform, and the founding of the League of Nations
. “Papers of Charlotte Despard”. AIM25: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library. |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | After the war, IOF
increasingly turned her attention towards the promotion of peace and international co-operation through her involvement with the Women's International League
as an executive member, and as the secretary of her local... |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | In 1935, when she gathered a small group of Labour friends to discuss her project, she found that they gravitated inevitably to the topic of Henderson's relations with Ramsay MacDonald
. Two years later she... |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | The book boasted decorations by B. Aylmer
. Contributors included the Countess of Limerick
(Crossing the Jordan), Irene Noel-Baker
(A Landlord in Greece), Helen Simpson
(In Search of Witches),... |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | In 1929 and again in 1930 she was a member of the British Delegation to the League of Nations
Assembly in Geneva (one of two women delegates sent by Britain), where her most exciting assignment... |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | During 1929-31 she also served as a member of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service
. In 1931 she was elected to the parliamentary executive of the Labour Party
and often spoke for the... |
politics | Winifred Holtby | She and Vera Brittain
regularly attended the League of Nations Assembly
in Geneva. In 1924 they went on a lecture tour of Central Europe for the Union. Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago. 112-13 Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 219 |
Textual Features | Elspeth Huxley | She explained the nature of UN
Trusteeship, a programme first established by the Permanent Mandates Commission
of the League of Nations
from which it sprang. |
Travel | Kathleen E. Innes | Kathleen
and George Innes
led the first of several annual tours to attend League of Nations
Assembly sittings in Geneva. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta. 248 |
Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
was among those presenting to the League of Nations
Assembly in Geneva the 14 million signatures on disarmament petitions gathered by the Peoples' Mandate to Governments
. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta. 135, 252 |
Textual Production | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
's The Story of the League of Nations
, Told for Young People, a textbook used in British schools, was published by the Hogarth Press
. Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson. 33 |