John St Loe Strachey

01 January 1901 - 01 January 1963

Standard Name: Strachey, John St Loe,, 1901 - 1963

Used Form: Evelyn John St Loe Strachey

Connections

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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...
Family and Intimate relationships	Amabel Williams-Ellis	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...
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. prelims
Textual Production	Amabel Williams-Ellis	Contributors included Nancy Cunard , Winifred Holtby , Storm Jameson , Pamela Hansford Johnson , Naomi Mitchison , Sylvia Townsend Warner , W. H. Auden , John Lehmann , and John Strachey .
Textual Production	Tillie Olsen	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 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

Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 July 2001.

of political theorist Harold Laski , publisher Victor Gollancz , and writer and Labour MP John Strachey established the Left Book Club (LBC) .

Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 July 2001.

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.

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