Alfred Richard Orage

Her contributions to The New Age were well received. The editor, Orage , told FF her articles were more frequently quoted than those of any other writer. A. Walton Litz believed them to stand...

IOF 's interests were wide-ranging. In addition to her earnest work for social reform, she also was a member of the Leeds Art Club (founded by A. R. Orage ) and the Humanitarian League ...

In the Labour press, however, IOF received more favourable reviews. For instance, Alfred Orage 's review in the Labour Leader was a friendly one. Entitled Pre-Neo Womanhood, it suggested that Democracy at last touches...

Tom Garrs introduced MG to Socialist politics. This was a time, she wrote later, when in a place the size of Leeds the labour movement was deeply aware but not yet moving, much less on...

MG equally admired A. R. Orage and Holbrook Jackson , founders of the Leeds Arts Club . At the Club she also met Edward Carpenter , W. B. Yeats , G. K. Chesterton , George Bernard Shaw

MG records in detail a drama in miniature when she was visiting Orage at his home, and he suddenly, without warning, pulled her close and said Kiss me. She did so (responding instinctively)...

MG 's correspondents included Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence , Alice Paul , Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , Elizabeth Robins , Helena Swanwick , Henry Nevinson , Havelock Ellis , John Galsworthy , Victor Gollancz , A. R. Orage

While at King's , SJ accepted an invitation to join the Eikonoklasts, a group of men that met for weekly discussion in a campus common-room. Jameson recalled with relish that they were skeptics, unavowed anarchists...

SJ excerpted this article from her graduate thesis on modern British and European drama. She was especially pleased to be published in the New Age, as she and her fellow students revered both the...

At about this time SJ began to review novels for A. R. Orage 's New English Weekly (which was indeed new at the time). She continued to publish in the journal for about two years.

A. R. Orage , editor of the New Age, printed a story by KM : The Child-Who-Was-Tired.

KM 's work was savagely attacked. Laurence Binyon called her story wilfully defiant of the rules of art, and said that in her poems she lies flapping and wappering. The first of these terms...

The Freewoman's other writing contributors included Rebecca West , radical feminists Ada Neild Chew and Theresa Billington-Greig , Stella Browne (later founder of the Abortion Law Reform Association ), anarchists Rose Witcop and Guy Aldred

At home her parents used to make her and her sister and brother learn poems by heart, and they paid for the learning, at a penny to sixpence a poem according to length. Later...

RP remembered writing her first poem at five, in capital letters with blue pencil on a bit of torn paper, impelled by the need to write down the feelings aroused by remembering an image of...