Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Muriel Box | After they moved to Mill Hill, the Boxes became good friends of the Labour
politicians Aneurin Bevan
and Jennie Lee
, through the fact that the two husbands shared the same physiotherapist. They were... |
Friends, Associates | Naomi Mitchison | Her Labour Party activism brought NM
various somewhat unlikely friends, such as Stafford Cripps
, Aneurin Bevan
, and Jennie Lee
. Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979. 204-5 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amabel Williams-Ellis | This work was shaped by her observations at Independent Labour Party
summer schools; she incorporates portraits of her then-colleagues the future Fascist Oswald Mosley
and Labour leader Aneurin Bevan
. The novel is concerned with... |
Occupation | George Orwell | For about eighteen months from November 1943 he was literary editor of Aneurin Bevan
's left-wing journal Tribune, to which he also contributed a weekly column. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Nina Bawden | Inspired by hearing Aneurin Bevan
speak when she was a young evacuee in Wales, Watts, Janet. “Nina Bawden Obituary”. The Guardian, 22 Aug. 2012. |
politics | Muriel Box | During the late 1950s and early 1960s MB
became involved with several political causes. She joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND), and was arrested and roughed up by the police on a demonstration of... |
politics | Margaret Forster | Politics entered the young MF
's life with the General Election of October 1951. She ascertained that her mother was a Conservative (just as she was a great supporter of the royal family) because Conservatives... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | |
Textual Production | Sue Townsend | ST
published True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts
and Susan Lilian Townsend (in the same year as her overtly political Mr. Bevan
's Dream). Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Textual Production | Sue Townsend | In Mr. [Aneurin] Bevan
's Dream: Why Britain Needs Its Welfare State, ST
wrote and published an impassioned defence of the welfare state. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Forster | This examines the lives of Mary Livingstone (mid-Victorian daughter of a missionary in Africa, who married the more famous missionary David Livingstone
, a colleague and protégé of her father), Fanny Stevenson (late Victorian... |