Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Muriel Box | After they moved to Mill Hill, the Boxes became good friends of the Labour
politicians Aneurin Bevan
and Jennie Lee
, through the fact that the two husbands shared the same physiotherapist. They were... |
Friends, Associates | Naomi Mitchison | Her Labour Party activism brought NM
various somewhat unlikely friends, such as Stafford Cripps
, Aneurin Bevan
, and Jennie Lee
. Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979. 204-5 |
politics | Muriel Box | During the late 1950s and early 1960s MB
became involved with several political causes. She joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND), and was arrested and roughed up by the police on a demonstration of... |
politics | Margaret Forster | Politics entered the young MF
's life with the General Election of October 1951. She ascertained that her mother was a Conservative (just as she was a great supporter of the royal family) because Conservatives... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | The movement of this bill involved many prominent women in the House of Commons
: it had been introduced by Margaret Bondfield
, the nation's first female cabinet minister, while Jennie Lee
, Lady Cynthia Moseley |
Textual Features | Margaret Forster | This examines the lives of Mary Livingstone (mid-Victorian daughter of a missionary in Africa, who married the more famous missionary David Livingstone
, a colleague and protégé of her father), Fanny Stevenson (late Victorian... |
Textual Production | Margaret Forster | MF
published a composite biographical study entitled Good Wives?: Mary
, Fanny
, Jennie
and Me, 1845-2001. Blackwell's
online bookshop dates the publication of this novel 1 January 2002. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | George Orwell | Female winners have included, for the Book Prize Patricia Hollis
(for her life of Jennie Lee
), Miranda Carter
, Delia Jarrett-Macauley
, and for the Journalism Prize Melanie Phillips
, Polly Toynbee
, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
, and Vanora Bennett
. The Orwell Prize. http://www.theorwellprize.co.uk/home.aspx. |
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