Croft, Andy. “Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 205-25.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | Anthony Trollope | AT
had two strategies that led to a productive writing career which he combined for years with increasingly responsible work as a civil servant with the Post Office
. His first strategy was to write... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Riddell | In 1883, twenty-three-year-old Arthur Hamilton Norway
, who had just arrived in London to take up a position in the Post Office
, took rooms in the house of the widowed CR
. He remained... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Mannin | Her father, Robert Mannin
, was a letter-sorter at the Post Office
; it was from him that EM
inherited her socialism and her passion for politics. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Occupation | Anthony Trollope | In 1834, AT
began working at the General Post Office
. He had a troublesome start there: he was habitually late, his pay was often docked, and he was [a]lways on the eve of being... |
| Textual Production | Mary Wesley | The manuscript of this book had a lucky escape. It fell out of a Post Office
van in London on its way to the publishers, but a street cleaner found it in a litter bin... |
| Violence | Flora Thompson | Walter Chapman
, the mentally unstable postmaster at Grayshott, murdered his wife Emily
, not long after FT
ceased working at Grayshott Post Office
. Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale, 1996. 63-4 |
Timeline
1830: Railways began carrying letters for the Post...
Building item
1830
Railways began carrying letters for the Post Office
.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
35
1869: The British government took control of private...
National or international item
1869
The British government took control of private telegraph companies, which were absorbed into the Post Office
.
Standage, Tom. The Victorian Internet. Walker and Company, 1998.
172
5 February 1870: Following the transfer of the telegraph system...
Building item
5 February 1870
Following the transfer of the telegraph system to the Post Office
, telegraph operators became the first female Civil Servants.
Martindale, Hilda. Women Servants of the State, 1870-1938: A History of Women in the Civil Service. G. Allen and Unwin , 1938.
15-19
5 February 1870: Following the transfer of the telegraph system...
Building item
5 February 1870
Following the transfer of the telegraph system to the Post Office
, telegraph operators became the first female Civil Servants.
Martindale, Hilda. Women Servants of the State, 1870-1938: A History of Women in the Civil Service. G. Allen and Unwin , 1938.
15-19
5 February 1870: Following the transfer of the telegraph system...
Building item
5 February 1870
Following the transfer of the telegraph system to the Post Office
, telegraph operators became the first female Civil Servants.
Martindale, Hilda. Women Servants of the State, 1870-1938: A History of Women in the Civil Service. G. Allen and Unwin , 1938.
15-19
1871: The British Government began employing women...
National or international item
1871
The British Government
began employing women as clerical workers.
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
166
1875: The Post Office decided that a married woman...
Building item
1875
The Post Office
decided that a married woman not being a widow is not eligible for any appointment on the establishment of the Post Office and any single woman now on the establishment who may...
1875: The Savings Bank Department, a division of...
Building item
1875
The Savings Bank Department
, a division of the Post Office
, was the second government division to hire women clerks; approximately thirty women were hired that year.
Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson, 1987.
103
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
166
1875: The Savings Bank Department, a division of...
Building item
1875
The Savings Bank Department
, a division of the Post Office
, was the second government division to hire women clerks; approximately thirty women were hired that year.
Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson, 1987.
103
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
166
May 1876: Maria Constance Smith was appointed the first...
National or international item
May 1876
Maria Constance Smith
was appointed the first Lady Superintendent of the recently created women's clerical branch of the Post Office
.
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
166
Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson, 1987.
103
January 1902: The British Post Office eased the restriction...
National or international item
January 1902
The British Post Office
eased the restriction of writing on the address-side of a picture postcard by allowing writing to appear on one half of the side reserved for the address.
Staff, Frank. The Picture Postcard and Its Origins. F. A. Praeger, 1966.
66
1920: Post Office management and the United Postal...
Building item
1920
Post Office
management and the United Postal Workers
signed an agreement providing for equal pay for women (up to an arbitrary marrying age of twenty-two) working as sorting clerks, telegraphists, and telephonists.
Grint, Keith. “Women and Equality: The Acquisition of Equal Pay in the Post Office, 1870-1961”. Sociology, Vol.
22
, No. 1, 1988, pp. 87-108. 97
1942: Owing to wartime shortage of labour, five...
Building item
1942
Owing to wartime shortage of labour, five thousand female engineers were hired by the Post Office
.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
1955: Equal pay began to be introduced over a six-year...
Building item
1955
Equal pay began to be introduced over a six-year period in the Post Office
.
Grint, Keith. “Women and Equality: The Acquisition of Equal Pay in the Post Office, 1870-1961”. Sociology, Vol.
22
, No. 1, 1988, pp. 87-108. 100
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