Huxter, Robert. Reg and Ethel. Sessions Book Trust, 1992.
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Standard Name: Wilkinson, Ellen
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | MHVR
's friends included novelist Elizabeth Robins
, Theodora Bosanquet
(spokesperson for British Federation of University Women
and one-time secretary of Henry James
), MP Ellen Wilkinson
(despite of their different stance on party politics)... |
| Friends, Associates | Ethel Mannin | Reynolds was a friend of Mahatma Gandhi
, and had been entrusted with Gandhi's historic letter to the British viceroy during the Civil Disobedience Campaign. Croft, Andy. “Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 205-25. 217 |
| Friends, Associates | Phyllis Bentley | At a dinner party at Vera Brittain
's Chelsea house, PB
met Naomi Mitchison
, Cecil Roberts
, and Ellen Wilkinson
. Brittain, Vera. Chronicle of Friendship. Editor Bishop, Alan, Gollancz, 1986. 39-40 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Cookson | |
| Occupation | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West
, Stella Benson
, Cicely Hamilton
, Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor
and Ellen Wilkinson
, Virginia Woolf
, Naomi Mitchison
, E. M. Delafield
, Rose Macaulay |
| Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | During these years, beginning in the Second World War, she worked in the Ministry of Information
(where she became head of the American section), the Committee of Ministers for Reconstruction
(from spring 1941), the Ministry... |
| politics | Dora Russell | After gaining the support of the Labour Women's Conference
and of individuals like Dorothy Jewson
, MP, and Ellen Wilkinson
(who became an MP on 29 October 1924), DR
participated with others in founding the... |
| politics | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | The group's agenda was to obtain legislative improvements in child-assault laws, the position of unmarried mothers, equality of both parents in guardianship rights, equal pay for teachers, equal civic service opportunities for women and men... |
| politics | Eleanor Rathbone | Not surprisingly, Rathbone's progressive ideals about women and feminist activism were weighed down by the cultural contexts (British and international) in which she was immersed. She had an imperfect understanding of the ways in which... |
| politics | Eleanor Rathbone | The movement of this bill involved many prominent women in the House of Commons
: it had been introduced by Margaret Bondfield
, the nation's first female cabinet minister, while Jennie Lee
, Lady Cynthia Moseley |
| politics | Catherine Cookson | She made her donations to St Hilda's and Girton despite the fact that she did not call herself a feminist and tended to think of feminism as an attempt to make women more like men.... |
| Textual Features | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | MHVR
humbly considers herself merely a normal person, Rhondda, Margaret Haig, Viscountess. This Was My World. Macmillan, 1933. x Rhondda, Margaret Haig, Viscountess. This Was My World. Macmillan, 1933. xii |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Fleur Adcock | This brings together a widely disparate collection: her latest poems, and others from longer ago which did not fit the themes of recent specialized volumes. Adcock writes on admired individuals (including Ellen Wilkinson
, Britain'... |
| Travel | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
travelled to Spain with her colleagues Ellen Wilkinson
, Dame Rachel Crowdy
, and the Duchess of Atholl
for ten days as observers in the Republican-dominated cities of Barcelona, Madrid, and Valencia. Stobaugh, Beverly. Women and Parliament, 1918-1970. Exposition Press, 1978. 45 |
Timeline
29 October 1924: Ellen Wilkinson was elected as the Labour...
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29 October 1924
Ellen Wilkinson
was elected as the Labour Party
's first woman MP.
Kimber, Richard. “UK General Elections since 1832”. Richard Kimber’s Political Science Resources: British Politics: Election Information.
1928: After Ellen Wilkinson's four-year campaign,...
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1928
After Ellen Wilkinson
's four-year campaign, women secretaries of Ministers and opposition leaders were granted the same right as male secretaries to eat in the Strangers' Dining Room.
Harrison, Brian. “Women in a Men’s House: The Women M.P.s, 1919-1945”. The Historical Journal, Vol.
29
, No. 3, Sept. 1986, pp. 623-54. 633
30 May 1929: Labour came in twenty-six votes ahead of...
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30 May 1929
Labour
came in twenty-six votes ahead of the Conservatives
in the first general election with full women's suffrage: the prospect of voting by women under thirty brought the demeaning nickname of the Flapper Election....
1 April 1936: Eight of the nine women Members of Parliament...
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1 April 1936
Eight of the nine women Members of Parliament in the House
supported Ellen Wilkinson
's amendment seeking to provide equal pay for women in the civil service.
Phillips, Melanie. The Divided House: Women at Westminster. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1980.
50
22 May 1936: The Peace Pledge Union was founded by Canon...
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22 May 1936
The Peace Pledge Union
was founded by Canon Dick Sheppard
.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
354
Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins, 1996.
69
5 October-1 November 1936: Ellen Wilkinson (nicknamed Red Ellen), Member...
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5 October-1 November 1936
Ellen Wilkinson
(nicknamed Red Ellen), Member of Parliament for the shipbuilding town of Jarrow, led two hundred unemployed men on a Hunger March from their hometown to London.
Mingay, Gordon Edmund. The Transformation of Britain 1830-1939. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986.
279
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
314
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
380
3 August 1945: Ellen Wilkinson (Labour) became the first...
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3 August 1945
Ellen Wilkinson
(Labour) became the first female Minister of Education.
Simon, Brian. Education and the Social Order, 1940-1990. Lawrence and Wishart, 1991.
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Bartley, Paula. “Women’s History Month: ’Red Ellen’, Ellen Wilkinson, 1891 1947”. Women’s History Network Blog, 7 Mar. 2011.
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