Independent Labour Party

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Occupation Emmeline Pankhurst
EP was elected to the Manchester School Board under the aegis of the Independent Labour Party ; she served on it until 1903.
Purvis, June. Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography. Routledge.
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Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint.
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politics Emmeline Pankhurst
EP and some female members of the Independent Labour Party formed the Women's Social and Political Union , with the slogan Votes for Women!
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint.
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politics Emmeline Pankhurst
At their annual conference in Cardiff, the Independent Labour Party elected EP to their National Administrative Council and advised the council to support the Women's Enfranchisement Bill.
Christian Holiday Calendar. http://people.albion.edu/imacinnes/calendar//Welcome.html.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint.
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politics George Orwell
Through his association with the Independent Labour Party , GO served in the POUM militia, an independent Marxist organization, in Spain.
Davison, Peter. George Orwell: A Literary Life. St Martin’s Press.
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Textual Features Edith Mary Moore
Having left the north to lead a pampered life in London with a hastily-chosen and clearly unsuitable old school friend as companion, she tries to do good in collaboration with the local clergyman. He complicates...
politics Ethel Mannin
EM joined the Independent Labour Party (which had disaffiliated from the decreasingly radical Labour Party the previous summer); she soon began writing regularly for its paper, the New Leader.
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, pp. 205-25.
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politics Ethel Mannin
The Independent Labour Party tried unsuccessfully to expel EM because of her un-Marxist pacifism.
Huxter, Robert. Reg and Ethel. Sessions Book Trust.
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Textual Production Ethel Mannin
EM published another novel, Men Are Unwise, which the Independent Labour Party judged to be insufficiently political.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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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, pp. 205-25.
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politics Ethel Mannin
During the 1930s, EM was an atheist and a member of the Independent Labour Party . She later leaned more towards anarchism and pacifism. She described herself as an champion for freedom who opposed the...
Friends, Associates Ethel Mannin
Reynolds was a friend of Mahatma Gandhi , and had been entrusted with Gandhi's historic letter to the British viceroy during the Civil Disobedience Campaign.
Huxter, Robert. Reg and Ethel. Sessions Book Trust.
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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, pp. 205-25.
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EM herself met, through the Independent Labour Party
Publishing Ethel Mannin
On joining the radically leftist Independent Labour Party in 1933, EM began writing regularly for New Leader: The Socialist Weekly of the Independent Labour Party.
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, pp. 205-25.
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Textual Features Ethel Mannin
Forever Wandering also recounts EM 's first visit to Moscow in 1934, the year after she joined the Independent Labour Party . In Moscow, then, she found her ideal society, where one could live a...
Literary responses Ethel Mannin
The ILP 's New Leader called this novel far removed . . . from the mass conflicts of the age.
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, pp. 205-25.
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The party leader, James Maxton , suggested that EM ought to write instead the...
Characters Ethel Mannin
This novel focuses on the romance between Elspeth's niece, Chloe, and Harry Winchell, an ILP member. But their love is prevented by class difference and Harry's impending death from tuberculosis.
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, pp. 205-25.
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On his deathbed, Harry...
Textual Features Ethel Mannin
Here she outlines some important changes in her political thinking. After meeting Reginald Reynolds , a fellow ILP activist, whom she married this same year, EM had been exposed to ideas of Gandhian non-violence. In...

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