Asa Briggs

Standard Name: Briggs, Asa

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses May Kendall
Rowntree's biographer Asa Briggs credits Kendall's affective writing with bringing Seebohm Rowntree 's The Human Needs of Labourto life; he describes her as someone who always gave loyal and devoted service.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
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Briggs, Asa. Seebohm Rowntree. Longmans, 1961.
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politics May Kendall
Most of her work can be read as reflecting advocacy for the working classes rather than specifically feminist ideals.
Birch, Catherine Elizabeth. Evolutionary Feminism in Late-Victorian Women’s Poetry: Mathilde Blind, Constance Naden and May Kendall. University of Birmingham.
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But though her focus remains on the legal and political rights of workers, there is...

Timeline

1994
Longman the publisher, which since 1968 had been part of the multi-product Pearson conglomerate, ceased to exist as an independent business.
Briggs, Asa. A History of Longmans and Their Books 1724 - 1990. Longevity in Publishing. British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2008.
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