Sent to preparatory school at the age of seven, WE
obtained the rest of his education on scholarships, first at Winchester School
, where his schoolmates included future academics William Hayter
and John Sparrow
and...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ann Oakley
AO
was heavily influenced by her father, Richard Morris Titmuss
, who, without a university education himself, became first an insurance clerk, and then a noted academic and social critic, one of the founders of...
Friends, Associates
Ann Oakley
Because of her father's political position, Ann Titmuss
was early acquainted with socialist luminaries, including the politicians Richard Crossman
and Peter Shore
and the academics R. H. Tawney
and Professor Peter Townsend
. At thirteen...
politics
Naomi Mitchison
NM
set out with her friend Zita Baker
on her first visit to the United States.
Baker was later married to Labour politician Dick Crossman
.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979.
199
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979.
149, 199-201
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora, 1992.
103-4
Publishing
Buchi Emecheta
Eventually, BE
sent a series of articles based on her experiences as a recent immigrant in London to Richard Crossman
, editor of the New Statesman. He took an interest in the pieces, which...