Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press.
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politics | Eleanor Rathbone | Britain, she said, must see that women are able to take their share in promoting and shaping their own destinies in the future government of India. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 111 |
politics | Amber Reeves | Fifteen women were elected to this parliament. AR
knew she had no chance of election: it was a hopeless seat for her to contest. (Her husband had stood unsuccessfully in a different constituency in 1924.)... |
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 | 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. 78 |
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... |
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 | 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... |
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... |
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. |
Textual Features | Christina Stead | This novel is again divided not into chapters but into scenes. It is prefaced by a page headed Credo, with quotations from its characters, including Jules Bertillon's No one ever had enough money and... |
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... |
politics | Alison Uttley | By the 1930s AU
's politics had become fervently patriotric: she was a firm supporter of Ramsay MacDonald
's National Coalition Government, elected on 26 August 1931. Over the next few years her dread of... |
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