Her father, Robert Mannin
, was a letter-sorter at the Post Office
; it was from him that EM
inherited her socialism and her passion for politics.
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.
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He died in 1949.
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Textual Production
Ethel Mannin
EM
published This was a Man: Some Memories of Robert Mannin, a book about her father
, who had died in 1949.
O’Rourke, Rebecca. “Were There No Women? British Working Class Writing in the Inter-War Period”. Literature and History, Vol.
14
, No. 1, 1988, pp. 48-63.
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