Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
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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 |
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... |
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... |
politics | Eva Gore-Booth | The women formed this committee (a break-away group from the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage
) after backing Labour
candidate David Shackleton
in a by-election. In exchange for the support of EGB
... |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | In 1935, when she gathered a small group of Labour friends to discuss her project, she found that they gravitated inevitably to the topic of Henderson's relations with Ramsay MacDonald
. Two years later she... |
Textual Features | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
points out how odd it was that people should see as typically English this man of Scottish labouring origins. A high proportion of successful Englishmen are, in fact, Scots. Not few of them, moreover... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad, Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 7 |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Mary Agnes Hamilton
's biography The Man of To-morrow: J. Ramsay MacDonald appeared from L. Parsons
as by Iconoclast; it was re-issued the same year by the Independent Labour Party
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She knew most of the leaders of this group, to which she gives several pages in her memoirs. She later came to regard it, however, as a cocoon or cell that kept those inside it... |
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... |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Again she found herself assistant editor, this time of a political journal which was just changing its image as it changed its name from The Labour Leader. By this time she had become well... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucille Iremonger | Her research uncovered the fact that fifteen out of twenty-four prime ministers from Wellington
to Chamberlain
were orphans or illegitimate—even though the 1921 census, soon after the steep rise in mortality brought by the first... |
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. 296 |
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... |
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... |
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