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Employer | Joan Aiken | |
Employer | Nawal El Saadawi | She lost these positions in 1972 as a consequence of her second published book, whose Arabic title means Women and Sex. After that NES
lectured at universities around the world and both served as... |
Employer | Bernice Rubens | Only union members were allowed to work in films, so BR
worked first for two months as a film cleaner, running a carbon tetrachloride cloth over reels of negative, before she was able to become... |
Literary responses | Ethel Lilian Voynich | Overall, however, The Gadfly was a success to a degree that not one of ELV
's subsequent novels could achieve. Garlick, Barbara. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Editor Mitchell, Sally, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988, p. 837. 837 |
politics | Bernice Rubens | BR
's politics were left-leaning, if not as optimistic as those of her staunchly Socialist father. She had the distinction of having been thrown out of two countries with diametrically opposed oppressive regimes, South Africa... |
politics | Dora Russell | A group of women organized by DR
and the international Mothers' Committee
presented the Mothers' Declaration to the United Nations
in New York. Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree 3 : Challenge to the Cold War. Virago, 1985. 3: 215-16 |
politics | Dora Russell | This was an impetus towards the establishment of the UN
's Commission on the Status of Women
. DR
was also involved with the United Nations at several other points in her career. Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree 3 : Challenge to the Cold War. Virago, 1985. 3: 155, 181-2 |
Textual Features | Bernice Rubens | This is a novel almost without women. The job in the title was named after George Ponsonby, a United Nations
investigator in Java, who had died by accident, mowed down by an out-of-control tractor... |
Textual Production | Bernice Rubens | BR
became a maker of documentary films, dealing especially with children's issues; she worked on her films between novels. Valentine Cunningham
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography singles out for mention her Dear Mum... |
Textual Production | Elspeth Huxley | EH
published a 24-page explanatory pamphlet about United Nations
terminology for the status of colonies: What are Trustee Nations? in the Background Books series. British Book News. British Council. (1955): 1351 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | 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. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dervla Murphy | The account of Laos (titled from the fact that the traveller sustained damage to a foot) is another outright political pamphlet.DM
writes here of a people and a culture which delighted her, but which... |
Travel | Bernice Rubens | BR
's travels as a filmmaker have already been mentioned, from her visit to Java while working on a 1969 documentary on agriculture for the United Nations
. Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research, 1982–1983. 634 |
Travel | Nawal El Saadawi | Earlier international travel by NES
included her participation in the UN
global conference for women at Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1980 and a conference on censorship at London in 1985. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Travel | Bernice Rubens | Later came her exciting and stressful, work-related travels. She visited to Indonesia on behalf of the United Nations, where she moved out of the hotel room booked for her to live in a village. She... |
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