Amabel's elder brother, Tom, died of pneumonia when she was twelve. Her younger brother, (Evelyn) John St Loe Strachey
, born in 1901, became a well-known public figure. During his political career he served as...
Family and Intimate relationships
Marghanita Laski
The political theorist Harold Laski
was ML
's uncle. Laski, a professor at the London School of Economics, was the best-known socialist intellectual of his era. His books on the Second World War, the...
politics
Amabel Williams-Ellis
AWE
and her brother John Strachey
, future politician and author, joined the Independent Labour Party
(which was founded by Keir Hardie
in 1893, gave birth to the Labour Party
, and disaffiliated from it...
politics
Amabel Williams-Ellis
AWE
accompanied her brother John Strachey
to Russia on invitation from a Russian miners' trade union, to study the coal-mining industry there.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
112-13
politics
Amabel Williams-Ellis
When Victor Gollancz
, John Strachey
, and Harold Laski
founded the Left Book Club
(for the distribution and discussion of radical texts on socialism, fascism, and war) AWE
was an early member.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
148-9
Laity, Paul, editor. Left Book Club Anthology. Victor Gollancz, 2001.
Her biographer, Panthea Reid
, calls TOzanier than most literary geniuses: She was undisciplined, high strung, full of excuses, and passionate.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
99
She was at least intermittently serious about her literary aims: in early...
Timeline
21-25 June 1935: The First International Congress of Writers...
National or international item
21-25 June 1935
The First International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture (an anti-fascist event urging the responsibility of writers to their society) was held in Paris.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.
169-77
February 1936: The awesome trio of political theorist Harold...
Writing climate item
February 1936
The awesome trio
Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 July 2001.
Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 July 2001.
April 1946 : A fact-finding mission for Clement Attlee's...
National or international item
April 1946
A fact-finding mission for Clement Attlee
's Labour
government visited Tanganyika (now Tanzania) to investigate the feasibility of a large-scale scheme for cultivating groundnuts (peanuts).
Wood, Alan. The Groundnut Affair. Bodley Head, 1950.