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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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, 1996. xviii |
| politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Katharine Conway (later KBG
) was the only woman on the committee that brought into official being on this date the Independent Labour Party
(ILP). Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited, 1971. 75 Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998. 190:122 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
joined the Independent Labour Party
during the week before the outbreak of the Great War (later called the First World War). It was, she wrote, the leading force for peace and socialism until after... |
| politics | Charlotte Despard | By the following year she had joined the Social Democratic Federation
and the Independent Labour Party
. Mulvihill, Margaret. Charlotte Despard: A Biography. Pandora, 1989. 196 |
| politics | George Egerton | Two days before Britain declared war on Germany, GE
attended a peaceful protest in Trafalgar Square, at which socialists Keir Hardie
and Henry Hyndman
, and Scottish nationalist R. B. Cunninghame Graham
... |
| politics | Dora Russell | DR
was involved with the Labour Party
, the Independent Labour Party
(ILP
), and their affiliates for most of her adult life. For instance, she attended the 1924 ILP Summer School
, where... |
| politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
became a member of the Independent Labour Party
in the same month as its formation, because she believed it stood for equality and opportunity for the whole race . . . women had never... |
| politics | Dora Russell | Other speakers included Vera Brittain
, Clemence Dane
, Megan Lloyd George
, and Storm Jameson
(all Six Point Vice-Presidents). The conference also involved the Married Women's Association
and the National Union of Women Teachers |
| politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
was elected to the National Administrative Council
of the Independent Labour Party
, a position she held for four years, until April 1907. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell, 1989. xi, 89 |
| politics | Dorothy Richardson | With varying degrees of commitment (usually minor), Richardson immersed herself in various philosophical movements of the period. She did much of her reading at the British Museum
's Reading Room, which she revered, but elsewhere... |
| politics | Margaret Harkness | She was an active member of various socialist parties between 1887 and 1891, including the Social Democratic Federation
and the Independent Labour Party
, though she later called socialism both foolish and wrong. qtd. in Goode, John. “Margaret Harkness and the Socialist Novel”. The Socialist Novel in Britain: Towards the Recovery of a Tradition, edited by H. Gustav Klaus, Harvester Press, 1982, pp. 45-66. 49 |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Fifty years later in her autobiography, EPL
explains how, although Katherine Price Hughes
never explicitly lectured on female equality, the expectations Katherine had for the women in the club introduced Emmeline to the influence and... |
| 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, 1993, pp. 205-25. 212 |
| politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | She discovered another area of discrimination when a branch of the Independent Labour Party
, which invited her to decorate a hall in memory of her father, turned out not to admit women as members. Mulhallen, Jacqueline. “Sylvia Pankhurst’s Paintings: A Missing Link”. Women’s History Magazine, No. 60, 1 June 2009–2026, pp. 35-8. 36 |
| 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 |
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