She seemed to recover immediately after the fall, but then deteriorated rapidly. She had kept a lock of Reynolds
's hair for the twenty-six years since his death, and it was cremated with her.
Huxter, Robert. Reg and Ethel. Sessions Book Trust, 1992.
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Education
Ethel Mannin
In the early months of the First World War she got into trouble for her dissident response to the requirement to write an essay on patriotism. Hoping to impress a teacher who was a Communist...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ethel Mannin
EM
's divorce from John Alexander Porteous
was finalized, with Reginald Reynolds
named as the co-respondent.
Huxter, Robert. Reg and Ethel. Sessions Book Trust, 1992.
103
Family and Intimate relationships
Ethel Mannin
EM
married Reginald Reynolds
at Paddington Registry Office; their witnesses were his mother and her housekeeper.
Huxter, Robert. Reg and Ethel. Sessions Book Trust, 1992.
103
Family and Intimate relationships
Ethel Mannin
After leaving her first husband, EM
had an affair with a young man, which ended when he committed suicide. After this she lived with writer James Stern
for four and a half years. According to...
Textual Features
Ethel Mannin
Here she outlines some important changes in her political thinking. After meeting Reginald Reynolds
, a fellow ILP
activist, whom she married this same year, EM
had been exposed to ideas of Gandhian non-violence. In...