Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998.
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death | Edith Lyttelton | Her memorial service was attended by relations and by prominent members of society, politicians, and representatives from the wide variety of causes she supported, including the Victoria League
, the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre Committee |
Employer | Una Marson | UM
took a secretarial position with the Salvation Army
in Kingston, Jamaica. This job initiated her long-term involvement with social work and advocacy for Jamaica's poor. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998. 24 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Nina Hamnett | NH
's next brother is several times mentioned in her first memoir. Her sister Helen
(never mentioned during their shared youth) later married Augustus Booth-Clibborn
(grandson of the founders of the Salvation Army
) and... |
Occupation | Mildred Cable | MC
and Evangeline
and Francesca French
rented a flat in Hampstead, to help their missionary work for organisations including the British and Foreign Bible Society
, the China Inland Mission
, and the Salvation Army
. Platt, William James. Three Women. Hodder & Stoughton, 1964. 190-1 |
Occupation | Annie S. Swan | She was able to put her mourning behind her when her husband was elected Mayor of Hertford, and a great deal of support fell to her lot, with some social duties of her own. Swan, Annie S. My Life. Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1934. 126ff |
Performance of text | George Bernard Shaw | The Court Theatre
presented Major Barbara, a three-act comedy by GBS
in which he pits the ethos of the Salvation Army
against modern industrialism. Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxiv Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982. |
politics | Christabel Pankhurst | |
Textual Features | Gillian Slovo | GS
includes a map, and reproduces contemporary comments on her historical action, especially from actual columns and letters from The Times and Pall Mall Gazette of 1884-5. Her Gordon, a fanatical martinet who refuses to... |
Textual Production | Margaret Harkness | MH
, as John Law, published Captain Lobe, A Story of the Salvation Army, her third novel. It appeared in serial form in the British Weekly before being published as a volume. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Bellamy, Joyce M., and John Saville, editors. Dictionary of Labour Biography. Macmillan, 1972–2024. viii: 106-7 |
Textual Production | Margaret Harkness | The plot concentrates its action during the period its title specifies: a climactic time of decision in the life of the protagonist, and in history a part of the long-drawn-out agony of Passchendaele, where... |
Textual Production | Josephine Butler | In 1883 JB
published The Salvation Army
in Switzerland. Stuart, James, 1843 - 1913 et al. “Preface and Editorial Materials”. Josephine E. Butler: An Autobiographical Memoir, edited by George W. Johnson and Lucy A. Johnson, J. W. Arrowsmith, 1928, p. v - vii; various pages. 130 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Harkness | A City Girl is an empathetic portrait of the struggle of women to survive financially and sexually in the slums of the East End of London (which form the setting of most of MH
's... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Harkness | Unlike many socialists, MH
saw the Salvation Army
in a positive light and greatly admired its practical work in alleviating poverty and helping young women and men living and working away from their homes. Again... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Agnes Maule Machar | The novel is set in the fictional United States mill town of Minton, where the eponymous hero establishes a radical workers' newspaper. The story advocates labour reforms as proposed by the Knights of Labour
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia Frankau | A Babe in Bohemia depicts the work of the Salvation Army
, with incidents and background which struck reviewers variously as realistic, or vulgar and earthy, or squalid and horrible. The plot builds to a... |
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