During the late 1930s EM
gave financial help to Spanish anarchist refugees. She spoke at public meetings in 1946 in London in favour of a unified Ireland and in support of the Irish Anti-Partition League
Textual Features
Elizabeth Taylor
This broaches the themes of mid-life change and relations between the different generations, which ET
had already touched on but which were to dominate her work of this decade. The story centres on the second...
Textual Production
Shelagh Delaney
SD
wrote the screenplay for Dance with a Stranger (which opened on this day), a film based on the story of Ruth Ellis
, the last woman to be executed in Britain.
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Timeline
13 July 1955: Ruth Ellis was hanged at Holloway Prison...
National or international item
13 July 1955
Ruth Ellis
was hanged at Holloway Prison
in London for the murder of her boyfriend, the last woman in Britain to die by judicial execution.
Ellis, Richard. Ruth Ellis—an alternative view. http://web.archive.org/web/20090318060220/http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/ruth.html.
