Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago.
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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 | Mayo's book generated enormous publicity, high sales, questions about the need for social reform in India, and charges of racism. Rathbone was intensely disturbed by Mayo's findings, and initially asserted that to this American stranger... |
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 | 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 |
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 | 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... |
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 |
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
'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 | 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 |
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