IOF
gave her first public speech when she decided to support striking female weavers in Leeds in October 1888. Despite her nervousness—she sometimes characterized herself as terrified by the faces gazing at me
KBG
began writing short stories and novels in the year of her marriage, which coincided with the creation of the presses of the Independent Labour Party
. She may also have been motivated to write...
Textual Production
Mary Agnes Hamilton
After an uncomfortable or cash-strapped period, MAH
's job under Philip Gibbs
at the Review of Reviews was succeeded by one at the New Leader, organ of the Independent Labour Party
.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
146
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Isabella Ormston Ford
IOF
's important pamphlet Women and Socialism, published by the Independent Labour Party
, established a theoretical reading of the connection between the labour movement and the women's movement.
Bondfield was already well known as activist in both industrial and feminist causes, and a leader of the Independent Labour Party
.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
107
She was to become Britain's first woman cabinet minister five years after...
Violence
Emmeline Pankhurst
EP
was violently attacked by a group of young Liberal
s after an Independent Labour Party
victory in Mid-Devon; she later learned that a local Conservative
had been killed in the mélee.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.