Workers' Educational Association

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Employer	Elaine Feinstein	She had been working at several jobs already: magazine editing, giving tutorials (at Cambridge called supervisions) to undergraduates, and teaching for the WEA . She earned money the family sorely needed (in part for school...
Employer	Doreen Wallace	DW found the war years tedious. There was a constant turnover of evacuees at her home: she considered sending her own children to Scotland for safety, but did not do so. She became a lecturer...
Family and Intimate relationships	Fleur Adcock	Her father, Cyril John Adcock, brought from England at the age of ten, grew up on a New Zealand bush farm where as a teenager he constructed cat's whisker radio equipment. Adcock, Fleur. Poems: 1960-2000. Bloodaxe Books, 2000. 194 Adcock, Fleur. Selected Poems. Oxford University Press, 1983. 49 In England...
Family and Intimate relationships	Frances Cornford	Rupert John Cornford was named after Rupert Brooke , who had died eight months earlier, and John Swan , a miner who met the Cornfords through the Workers' Educational Association . Delany, Paul. The Neo-Pagans: Rupert Brooke and the Ordeal of Youth. Free Press, 1987. 221
Family and Intimate relationships	Dorothy Whipple	Henry Whipple, who worked as a civil servant in education, was Dorothy's boss at the time. His work took them to conferences here and there, and meetings of the W. E .A. Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966. 84 Nicola Beauman

Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.

Dent, Harold Collett. 1870-1970: Century of Growth in English Education. Longmans, 1970.

The Workers' Educational Association (WEA) had 219 branches, with 12,438 students; about 40% were women.

Gordon, Peter et al. Education and Policy in England in the Twentieth Century. Woburn, 1991.

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