Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998.
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death | Sylvia Pankhurst | On the wall above her deathbed hung an election manifesto written by her father
when he was a candidate for the Independent Labour Party
in Manchester in 1895. Emperor Haile Selassie
ensured that she should... |
Employer | Una Marson | UM
accompanied Haile Selassie
as his personal secretary to the League of Nations
in Geneva, where his plea for assistance for the Abyssinian people was unsuccessful. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998. 102-3 |
Friends, Associates | Rosita Forbes | In FinlandRF
met the national hero Marshal Mannerheim
. Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell, 1944. 302 |
Friends, Associates | Sylvia Pankhurst | She and Haile Selassie
were also personal friends. Kettle, Martin. “Sylvia Pankhurst’s popularity shows the shifting nature of politics”. theguardian.com, 26 Dec. 2018. |
Friends, Associates | Una Marson | While working for Selassie
, UM
met the writer and racial activist Nancy Cunard
, who was in Geneva as a reporter for the American Associated Negro Press
. Later her BBC work enabled her... |
Occupation | Una Marson | |
Occupation | Una Marson | The very next day, Italian troops crossed the Abyssinian border and occupied several cities, ultimately forcing the Emperor Haile Selassie
to surrender, which he did in May 1936. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998. 99, 101 |
Other Life Event | Sylvia Pankhurst | During her first visit to Ethiopia, Emperor Haile Selassie
awarded SP
the Order of Sheba and a Patriot's Medal with Five Palms (one for each year of the Ethiopian war with Italy). Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press, 1987. 249 |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | |
Textual Features | Rosita Forbes | RF
published when Mussolini
had conquered and exiled Haile Selassie
, but before Queen Wilhelmina
had fled from home before the invading Nazis
, or Russia had switched sides and entered the war against Germany... |
Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh | He had written it between September 1931 and May 1932. Waugh, Evelyn. Black Mischief. Little, Brown and Company, 1946. 312 |
Textual Production | Sylvia Pankhurst | She dedicated the work to Emperor Haile Selassie
. She had been gathering material since October 1951, when she visited Ethiopia to do research. SP
underwrote the production costs with her subscriber base and by... |
Textual Production | Winifred Holtby | WH
's inspiration for the novel came from reports of the coronation of the Emperor of Abyssinia
in 1930. Shaw, Marion, and Winifred Holtby. “Introduction”. Mandoa, Mandoa!, Virago, 1982, p. ix - xix. xi-xii |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | She observes that she can write at first hand about most of the men who—to-day—are making war, or struggling to prevent it in three continents. qtd. in Charques, Richard Denis. “Admirer with a Notebook”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1992, 6 Apr. 1940, p. 166. 166 |
Travel | Evelyn Waugh | EW
set out to spend five months in Africa, travelling first to Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) for the coronation of Haile Selassie
, then to Aden, Zanzibar, Kenya, Elizabethville (now Lumumbashi), Rhodesia... |
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