Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Her best-known journalism remains her lucid, sensitive reports on the political and physical violence inflicted by the Second World War on Britons' daily lives, but she continued her letters from London until 1984, by which...

This time the story begins with Kitchener 's re-taking of Khartoum, and ends with the death in 1965 of Winston Churchill , presented as the last imperialist. In it JM appeals to her own...

EMM dedicated this book to her daughter, Edris. It has no paratext; and makes no mention of the fact that its protagonist, one of our civilian soldier boys, is modelled on the author's son Edward Lovell Moore

EMM 's early treatment of the Great War is enthusiastic: The greatest epic of history had begun.The heart of England beat high as of old, to go forth and avenge a violated country...

Following her early conquest of Tennyson , AM went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan , Aubrey Beardsley (while he...

In an episode that became famous in suffragette annals,DM thwarted extreme security measures in order to confront Home Secretary Winston Churchill on the matter of female suffrage at the Empire Hall in Southport.

EL had a close relationship with her son Oliver , who consulted with her on every aspect of life, every detail of [his] career after his father died. He went on to become a...

Votes for Women carried a piece by BH (originally intended as a letter to the Times) defending male suffrage supporters against attack by Winston Churchill .

MG , who was involved with Dora Marsden in impeding Winston Churchill 's election rallies in Southport, received grave internal injuries when she was struck by one of the stewards.

The production directly affected government policy: Winston Churchill (then Home Secretary) saw the play, and in a conversation with JG agreed to apply the punishment of solitary confinement more sparingly, and for shorter periods.

According to Percy Lubbock , MC and her sisters entertained often and were charming and successful hostesses. Mary was nevertheless said to be a shy and modest woman who, while she found writing tedious, enjoyed...

Later assessments of LOC 's social purity work have likewise been mixed. Heloise Brown describes her as advocating from an Evangelical feminist position a reactionary form of social purity which sought to remove...

She began her writing career as a gossip columnist for the Daily Express in 1923. She was soon noticed by her first employer, Lord Beaverbrook , and by his friends Winston Churchill , F. E. Smith

BC shared her brothers' strong endorsement of Britain's active role in the Second World War (all three were acquaintanced with Winston Churchill ). She threw herself into war work. Welfare Officers were charged with everything...

At that time the Foreign Office, working in London, was distinct from the Diplomatic Service , working abroad. It was not until after the First World War that Owen O'Malley became a diplomat overseas. He...