Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
66-7, 246
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Lady Margaret Sackville | Members of the Union of Democratic Control
also included Margaret Llewelyn Davies
and Bertrand Russell
. Helena M. Swanwick
was a member of the Executive Committee, and LMS
was one of twelve women besides her... |
Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | Kathleen Royds
(later Innes) took up a job as organizer for the Birmingham branch of the Union for Democratic Control
. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 66-7, 246 |
politics | Vernon Lee | VL
, along with Ramsay MacDonald
, Norman Angell
, and Charles Trevelyan
, became an early member of the Union of Democratic Control
. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press, 2003. 296 |
politics | Vera Brittain | VB
had supported a number of pacifist groups in the early 1930s, including the National Peace Council
, the Union of Democratic Control
, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
. Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell, 1996. 251 |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | Shortly after its foundation, IOF
joined the Union of Democratic Control
, which aimed to achieve a negotiated peace to end the Great War and to develop policy to prevent further wars. Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell, 1989. x, 166 |
politics | Constance Smedley | Living at Minchinhampton opened Smedley's eyes to the poverty and deprivation prevalent in the English countryside, and from a moderate Conservative she became an active Liberal
supporter. The Pageant of Progress, which charted the... |
politics | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
was in her early thirties when the First World War began. She joined the anti-war Union of Democratic Control
in 1914, the year it was launched. Other family members of hers shared her anti-war... |
politics | Lady Margaret Sackville | Some detail about the Union of Democratic Control
is in order here because her membership of its General Council is at odds with the accepted image of LMS
, and suggests that a side of... |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She knew most of the leaders of this group, to which she gives several pages in her memoirs. She later came to regard it, however, as a cocoon or cell that kept those inside it... |
Textual Production | Vernon Lee | VL
dedicated The Ballet of the Nations to Romain Rolland
, whose pacifism she admired greatly.Peace With Honour was published in association with the Union of Democratic Control
, an anti-war organization which she... |