Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
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Travel | Iris Murdoch | IM
's early travel was mostly political: Geneva for the League of Nations
summer school, Brussels, Bruges and Antwerp in the intoxicating postwar moment of personal reunions and renewed intellectual freedom. Even her delighted... |
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 |
Travel | Evelyn Sharp | ES
's time in Berlin brought her an engagement for a lecture tour of Holland in November 1920. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 191 |
Travel | Iris Murdoch | The schoolgirl IM
spent ten days at a League of Nations
Summer School for young people at Geneva. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 68 |
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. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Evelyn Waugh | The man who emerges as the white protagonist of the story, Basil Seal, is in trouble with his feckless, privileged circle at home, fed up and wanting to get away, when he is invited to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edith Lyttelton | This two-page publication summarizes a longer report made by the Commission for Protection of Women and Children in the Near East
. It focuses primarily on rescue efforts directed by Karen Jeppe
(from Denmark)... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rose Macaulay | In this book delegates to a League of Nations conference at Geneva disappear at an alarming rate, and contrasting national characteristics are amusingly depicted. Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago. 164 |
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 | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
's short political treatise War Can Be Averted: The Achievability of Collective Security (Left Book Club
) argued for collective security organized by the League of Nations
, and against either appeasement, non-intervention, or disarmament. Stobaugh, Beverly. Women and Parliament, 1918-1970. Exposition Press. 45 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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),... |
Textual Production | Edith Lyttelton | EL
's participation in the League of Nations
assembly resulted in the publication of a leaflet or report, Protection of Women and Children in the Near East, focusing on rescue efforts in the Ottoman Empire. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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 |
Textual Production | Anne Ridler | Anne Bradby, later Ridler, was highly precocious in some kinds of writing. Her elder brother at the front in World War One recorded receiving a long and interesting letter from her when she was only... |
Textual Production | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
published How the League of Nations
Works, Told for Young People with the Hogarth Press
: 2,500 copies were printed. Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson. 41, 55 |