Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Sharp | They declined Ramsay MacDonald
's offer to be best man, not wanting the publicity. They were now constant companions, having belonged long ago to the same walking club and to the United Suffragists
, and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Margaret Sackville | The friendship between the widowed James Ramsay MacDonald
, Labour politician, and LMS
began in 1912 and proved important and long-lasting. She was said to have declined a proposal of marriage from him. The writer... |
Friends, Associates | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | During the Schützes' pacifist years it was only gradually that they began to find some support from like-minded people, like Bertrand Russell
and Ramsay MacDonald
(though GHS
felt the latter was a fair-weather pacifist), and... |
Friends, Associates | L. M. Montgomery | Baldwin declared himself a huge fan at festivities in Toronto that included the Prince of Wales
and Prince George
. A later British prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald
, claimed that he had read all of... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
became, according to Mary Agnes Hamilton
, one of those [e]verybody who was anybody in the anti-war movement, who gathered around Lady Ottoline Morrell
. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944. 78 |
Friends, Associates | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
's involvement with the socialist and feminist movements of the day brought her into close contact with several notable activists and revolutionaries. Through the Fabian Society
, she interacted with Beatrice
and Sidney Webb |
Friends, Associates | Isabella Ormston Ford | Besides the Ford sisters, other members of the UDC included founding member James Ramsay MacDonald
, executive committee member Helena Swanwick
, and Vernon Lee
, who was a good friend of IOF
's sister... |
Friends, Associates | Alison Uttley | AU
's friends from university years included GL (Gwladys Llewellyn
, later a teacher) and LM (Lily Meagher
), who both remained unmarried. Another was Gertrude Uttley
. In London she became a... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
knew and worked closely with the Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald
, though her early intense admiration for him diminished with time. Up to the year after publishing her book on him (which was also... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | She became a close friend of Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson
, of Hertha Ayrton
, physicist and suffragist, and of Ayrton's daughter, Barbara Gould
. These two women, mother and daughter, embodied a thread linking... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Christina Stead | By chance House of All Nations (which has been called a mammoth study of the world of international finance) Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Occupation | John Buchan | During the decade that began with a by-election in 1927, JB
was a Member of Parliament: one of three who sat for a constituency composed of graduates of some of the Scottish universities. (English universities... |
politics | Vernon Lee | VL
, along with Ramsay MacDonald
, Norman Angell
, and Charles Trevelyan
, became an early member of the Union of Democratic Control
. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press, 2003. 296 |
politics | Lady Margaret Sackville | Some detail about the Union of Democratic Control
is in order here because her membership of its General Council is at odds with the accepted image of LMS
, and suggests that a side of... |
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... |
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