Ray Russell

Through the Communist PartyET met Raymond or Ray Russell , a railwayman's son who was apprenticed in the furniture-making business but longed to be a painter. She wrote of their early involvement: I...

Just after her mother's death and before her wedding, ET took the momentous step of joining the Communist Party . At this date she envisaged economic freedom as connected with freedom of speech, and with...

Though she used her time at Scarborough for this novel, she did not begin it there, as has been said, but after her return. This book initiated ET 's happy relationship with her...

In letters written to her lover Ray Russell over twelve years from 1936, ET not only expressed her feelings but also discussed the stages of her early development as a writer. Russell kept these letters...