Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited, 1971.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | They had met through socialist circles the previous autumn when Keir Hardie
invited Conway to a gathering at the Glasier family's home while both were attending the Trades Union Congress
meeting in Glasgow. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited, 1971. 57 |
politics | Clementina Black | CB
, representing the London Women's Trades Council
, travelled to Bradford for a meeting of the Trades Union Congress
, where she proposed that women should have equal wages for labour equivalent to men's. Glage, Liselotte. Clementina Black: A Study in Social History and Literature. Carl Winter, 1981. 31 |
politics | Helen Blackburn | By 1881 HB
was a delegate to the Trades Union Congress
for the British National Union of Working Women
. 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. |
politics | Edith J. Simcox | Along with Emma Paterson
, EJS
was one of two women delegates sent to the Trades Union Congress
at Glasgow, where she represented the Shirt and Collar Makers
. McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press, 1961. 38 |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | By 1936, the Committee advocated state-sponsored lunch programmes in schools, along with the provision of milk for pregnant women and for children under school age. ER
was joined in these efforts by the Fabian Barbara Drake |
politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Her opportunities for public speaking soon exploded. She was a Bristol delegate to the first annual conference of the Fabian Society in February this year; in June she was electioneering on behalf of Ben Tillett |
politics | Rosamond Lehmann | She recalled in a letter of this month a demonstration which was probably the last official one of the campaign: To my pained surprise I found myself committed to walking in a procession down Whitehall... |
Reception | Sylvia Pankhurst | A permanent, visible memorial to SP
has proved a contentious issue. Emmeline
and Christabel
have a statue and plaque near the House of Commons
; Sylvia was felt to be too pacifist and too socialist... |
Travel | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
's involvement in political efforts at social reform led to extensive travel. In 1895, she was a delegate to the International Textile Workers
' Congress at Ghent in Belgium (the first of several attendances... |
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