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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 |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
was especially concerned that the League of Nations
would not back legitimate, domestic attempts to combat fascism in various countries, particularly in Eastern Europe. She also served as Honorary Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee on Refugees |
politics | Lady Margaret Sackville | The UDC lasted until the mid-sixties. After World War One, it concentrated on foreign affairs, pressing for a reformed League of Nations
(to include Germany and Russia), opposing expanded imperialist activities in China and East... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | As the political climate moved increasingly towards war, ER
advocated League of Nations
sanctions against Mussolini
's Italy (with the threat of force), as well as a closer relationship between Britain and the USSR in... |
Author summary | Edith Lyttelton | Edith Lyttelton's prominent position in society helped to draw attention to her first and best-known play, Warp and Woof, 1904, which took up the issue of sweated labour. Her dramatic oeuvre includes several morality... |
Publishing | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
published The League of Nations
, The Complete Story, an updated and collected edition of her previous five books with the Hogarth Press
in the form of a single monograph. Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson. 133 |
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... |
Publishing | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
self-published The Romance of the Health Work of the League of Nations. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta. 211 |
Publishing | Edith Lyttelton | EL
was in demand for years as a contributor to the publishing projects of others. Her name (as the Hon. Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton) appears, for instance, on a suffrage pamphlet of late 1906 (partly... |
Reception | Iris Murdoch | She twice won prizes, in 1937 and 1938, for essays on political themes under League of Nations
auspices. On the second occasion the runner-up was the future critic Raymond Williams
. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 76, 78 |
Textual Features | Jan Morris | This time the story begins with Kitchener
's re-taking of Khartoum, and ends with the death in 1965 of Winston Churchill
, presented as the last imperialist. In it JM
appeals to her own... |
Textual Features | Kathleen E. Innes | Like many liberal and left-wing white intellectuals, KEI
seemed to hold the view that Africans, Indians, and Aboriginals (from New Zealand and North America) did need protection and the benefit of white men's disinterestedness... |
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. |
Textual Production | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
published The League of Nations
and the World's Workers with the Hogarth Press
. Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson. 49 |
Textual Production | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
published The Story of Nansen
and the League of Nations. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta. 209 |
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