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Health | Dorothy Brett | The full measure of her hearing loss, too, is differently assessed. Although Hignett asserts that she never fully lost her hearing and that her speech was almost totally unaffected, the Bloomsbury group and her associates... |
politics | Vera Brittain | She wrote later in her diary that her mind had been made up more by Bertrand Russell
's pamphlet Which Way to Peace? than by anything that Mumford had said. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 357 |
politics | Mary Butts | MB
was a pacifist who sympathised strongly with the position of conscientious objectors. Believing that conscription was a sign of the collective insanity that has come over the world, Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company. 6 |
Textual Features | Mildred Cable | This book also addresses the importance of literacy throughout the world. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 195 Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. The Book which Demands a Verdict. S. C. M. Press. 111 |
Friends, Associates | Frances Cornford | Among friends entertained regularly or occasionally at Conduit Head were William Rothenstein
, Eric Gill
, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
, Bertrand Russell
, and Rabindranath Tagore
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Frances Cornford | FC
also developed friendships, although not close ones, with Walter de la Mare
, Eric Gill
, Bertrand Russell
, Siegfried Sassoon
, Ralph
and Ursula Vaughan Williams,
and Virginia Woolf
. Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxxv |
Family and Intimate relationships | T. S. Eliot | Bertrand Russell
offered them a place to live,.but then embarked on a romantic relationship with Vivien which lasted until they actually became lovers, after which it collapsed. TSE
, thinks biographer Peter Ackroyd
, may... |
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 | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
's correspondents included Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
, Alice Paul
, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
, Elizabeth Robins
, Helena Swanwick
, Henry Nevinson
, Havelock Ellis
, John Galsworthy
, Victor Gollancz
, A. R. Orage |
politics | Eva Gore-Booth | Gore-Booth and Roper described themselves as extreme pacifists. Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press. 163 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 74 |
Travel | Kathleen E. Innes | Its success helped secure for future schools such high-profile speakers as Bertrand Russell
, Hermann Hesse
, Emily Greene Balch
, Romain Rolland
, Georges Duhamel
, and Paul Birukoff
(Tolstoy
's secretary and biographer). Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta. 70n21 |
politics | Marghanita Laski | Though ML
held left-wing political opinions, she described herself as not a good socialist (meaning that she shaped her opinions for herself, not adhering to a party line). She cared more for the generally humanist... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Lawless | Lawless made a number of other friends, acquaintances, and admirers through her writing, including Margaret Oliphant
, an early friend and critic, Rhoda Broughton
, George Meredith
, Aubrey de Vere
, Mary Augusta Ward |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL
continued to read widely. She returned to Dante
, Shakespeare
, and Goethe
. She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science... |