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17%OFFLaura Beers - Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist - 9780674971523 - V9780674971523
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Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist

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Description for Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist Hardback. Ellen Wilkinson viewed herself as part of an international radical community and became involved in socialist, feminist, and pacifist movements that spanned the globe. By focusing on the extent to which Wilkinson s activism transcended Britain s borders, Laura Beers adjusts our perception of the British Left in the early twentieth century." Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; BGH; JPFF; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 244 x 44. Weight in Grams: 976.
In 1908 Ellen Wilkinson, a fiery adolescent from a working-class family in Manchester, was the only girl who talks in school debates. By midcentury, Wilkinson had helped found Britain's Communist Party, earned a seat in Parliament, and become a renowned advocate for the poor and dispossessed at home and abroad. She was one of the first female delegates to the United Nations, and she played a central role in Britain's postwar Labour government. In Laura Beers's account of Wilkinson's remarkable life, we have a richly detailed portrait of a time when Left-leaning British men and women from a ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
568
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674971523
SKU
V9780674971523
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Ref
99-50

About Laura Beers
Laura Beers is Associate Professor of History at American University and a Birmingham Fellow at the University of Birmingham.

Reviews for Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist
Beers has produced a detailed account of an extraordinary life.
Clare Griffiths Times Higher Education (10/20/2016) Gives readers a vivid insight into the life of one of the most important figures in the history of the British radical left.
Katherine Williams LSE Review of Books (02/21/2017) In Red Ellen, Laura Beers...draws a multifaceted portrait, capturing the woman herself as well ... Read more

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