Huxter, Robert. Reg and Ethel. Sessions Book Trust, 1992.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Ethel Mannin | Reynolds was a friend of Mahatma Gandhi
, and had been entrusted with Gandhi's historic letter to the British viceroy during the Civil Disobedience Campaign. Huxter, Robert. Reg and Ethel. Sessions Book Trust, 1992. 56 Croft, Andy. “Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 205-25. 217 |
Friends, Associates | Phyllis Bentley | At a dinner party at Vera Brittain
's Chelsea house, PB
met Naomi Mitchison
, Cecil Roberts
, and Ellen Wilkinson
. Brittain, Vera. Chronicle of Friendship. Editor Bishop, Alan, Gollancz, 1986. 39-40 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | MHVR
's friends included novelist Elizabeth Robins
, Theodora Bosanquet
(spokesperson for British Federation of University Women
and one-time secretary of Henry James
), MP Ellen Wilkinson
(despite of their different stance on party politics)... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Cookson | |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | During these years, beginning in the Second World War, she worked in the Ministry of Information
(where she became head of the American section), the Committee of Ministers for Reconstruction
(from spring 1941), the Ministry... |
Occupation | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West
, Stella Benson
, Cicely Hamilton
, Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor
and Ellen Wilkinson
, Virginia Woolf
, Naomi Mitchison
, E. M. Delafield
, Rose Macaulay |
politics | Catherine Cookson | She made her donations to St Hilda's and Girton despite the fact that she did not call herself a feminist and tended to think of feminism as an attempt to make women more like men.... |
politics | Dora Russell | After gaining the support of the Labour Women's Conference
and of individuals like Dorothy Jewson
, MP, and Ellen Wilkinson
(who became an MP on 29 October 1924), DR
participated with others in founding the... |
politics | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | The group's agenda was to obtain legislative improvements in child-assault laws, the position of unmarried mothers, equality of both parents in guardianship rights, equal pay for teachers, equal civic service opportunities for women and men... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | Not surprisingly, Rathbone's progressive ideals about women and feminist activism were weighed down by the cultural contexts (British and international) in which she was immersed. She had an imperfect understanding of the ways in which... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | The movement of this bill involved many prominent women in the House of Commons
: it had been introduced by Margaret Bondfield
, the nation's first female cabinet minister, while Jennie Lee
, Lady Cynthia Moseley |
Textual Features | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | MHVR
humbly considers herself merely a normal person, Rhondda, Margaret Haig, Viscountess. This Was My World. Macmillan, 1933. x Rhondda, Margaret Haig, Viscountess. This Was My World. Macmillan, 1933. xii |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Fleur Adcock | This brings together a widely disparate collection: her latest poems, and others from longer ago which did not fit the themes of recent specialized volumes. Adcock writes on admired individuals (including Ellen Wilkinson
, Britain'... |
Travel | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
travelled to Spain with her colleagues Ellen Wilkinson
, Dame Rachel Crowdy
, and the Duchess of Atholl
for ten days as observers in the Republican-dominated cities of Barcelona, Madrid, and Valencia. Stobaugh, Beverly. Women and Parliament, 1918-1970. Exposition Press, 1978. 45 |
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