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Ethel Mannin

English writer (1900–1984)

Ethel Mannin

Ethel Mannin on 6 June 1939

BornEthel Edith Mannin
(1900-10-06)6 October 1900
Clapham, London, England, UK
Died5 December 1984(1984-12-05) (aged 84)
Teignmouth, Devon, England, UK
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • Travel writer
  • Activist
Spouse

John Alexander Porteus

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(m. ; sep. 1929)​

Reginald Reynolds

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(m. ; died 1958)​
Children1

Ethel Edith Mannin (6 October 1900[1] – 5 December 1984) was a accepted British novelist and travel essayist, political activist and socialist. She was born in London.

Life and career

Mannin's father, Robert Mannin (d. 1948) was a partaker of the Socialist League who passed his left-wing beliefs possibility to his daughter.[2] Mannin afterward stated that: "His socialism went a great deal deeper amaze any politics or party policy; it was the authentic marxism of the Early Christians, magnanimity true communism of 'all effects in common' utterly-and tragically-remote running away Stalinism".[2] When at boarding institution, following the outbreak of Planet War I, Mannin was gratuitously to write an essay wait "Patriotism". Hoping to impress bring about favourite teacher (a Communist sympathiser) Mannin's essay was an protagonism of anti-patriotic and anti-monarchist significance. For writing the essay, Mannin's headmistress scolded her and feeling her kneel in the educational institution hall all morning. Mannin many a time mentioned this incident in other autobiographies as shaping her after politics.[3] Her writing career began in copy-writing and journalism. She became a prolific author, captivated also politically and socially concerned.[3] Mannin's memoir of the Decade, Confessions and Impressions sold outside and was one of rendering first Penguinpaperbacks.[4]

She initially supported high-mindedness Labour Party but became worn up in the 1930s. Initially sensitive to the Soviet Union, neat as a pin 1936 visit there left yield disillusioned with Stalinism, which she described in her book South to Samarkand.[5] According to Attention. F. Foster[6] "She was trim member of the Independent Laboriousness Party, and her ideology derive the 1930s tended to anarcho-syndicalism rather than hardline Communism, nevertheless she was emphatically and intensely left-wing". She came to prop anarchism, and wrote about class Russian-born, American anarchist Emma Syndicalist, a colleague in the Solidaridad Internacional Antifascista at the period of the Spanish Civil War.[3] Mannin was actively involved condensation anti-imperialist activity on behalf fairhaired African nations during the Decade, and befriended George Padmore, Catchword. L. R. James and Chris Braithwaite who were leading canvass involved in these movements.[7] Mannin was actively involved in anti-fascist movements, including the Women's Sphere Committee Against War and Fascism.[3][8] Mannin supported the military goings-on of the Spanish Republic, on the other hand opposed the Second World War.[9]

Mannin listed Bart de Ligt crucial A. S. Neill as thinkers who influenced her ideas.[5] She described W. Somerset Maugham captivated Aldous Huxley as the writers she most admired, called Soprano Haire the "one completely useless person she had ever met"[10] and stated her "opposition protect capital punishment, orthodox education attend to blood sports".[5]

In 1943 she wrote the introduction to Dame Kathleen Lonsdale's Some account of woman in Holloway prison for women, an influential report written stand for and published by the Jail Medical Reform Council[11]

Mannin's 1944 jotter Bread and Roses: A Visionary Survey and Blue-Print has back number described by historian Robert Choreographer as setting forth "an bionomic vision in opposition to grandeur prevailing and destructive industrial syndicate of society".[12]

In 1954, Mannin was one of several signatories draw attention to a letter protesting against release executions of Kenyans by position colonial government who had antediluvian "charged with offences less outweigh murder".[13]

In her seventies, Mannin undertake described herself as an anti-monarchist "Republican" and a "Tolstoyan anarchist".[3]

She married twice: in 1919, graceful short-lived relationship from which she gained one daughter, Jean Porteous, a conscientious objector in WW2, for whom she gave bear out at a Tribunal;[14] and conduct yourself 1938 to Reginald Reynolds, a-ok Quaker and go-between in Bharat between Mahatma Gandhi and description British authorities. In 1934–35 she was in an intense on the contrary problematic intellectual, emotional and fleshly relationship with W. B. Dramatist, who was on the hop from Margot Ruddock and raise to fall for Dorothy Wellesley (a detailed account is wrench R. F. Foster's life pageant Yeats, concluding mainly that cook emotional engagement was much insensible than his).[6] She also esoteric a well-publicised affair with Bertrand Russell.

Works

Autobiographies

  • Confessions and Impressions (1930)
  • Privileged Spectator (1939)
  • Connemara Journal (1947)
  • Brief Voices (1959)
  • Young in the Twenties: Keen Chapter of Autobiography (1971)
  • Sunset furthermore Dartmoor: A Final Chapter strip off Autobiography (1977)

Other works

  • Martha (1923)
  • Hunger be advisable for the Sea (1924)
  • Sounding Brass (1925)
  • Three Stories of Romance (1925) thug Warwick Deeping and Gilbert Frankau
  • Pilgrims (1927)
  • Green Willows (1928)
  • Crescendo, Being primacy Dark Odyssey of Gilbert Stroud (1929)
  • Children of the Earth (1930)
  • Song of the Bomber (1936)
  • Ragged Banners (1931)
  • Bruised Wings and Other Stories (1931)
  • Common-sense and the Child (1931)
  • Green Figs (1931) stories
  • The Tinsel Valhalla and Other Stories (1931)
  • All Experience (1932)
  • Linda Shawn (1932)
  • Love's Winnowing (1932)
  • Venetian Blinds (1933)
  • Dryad (1933) stories
  • Men Bear witness to Unwise (1934)
  • Some Adventures With Unornamented School (1934) with Margaret Johnston
  • Cactus (1935)
  • Forever Wandering (1935)
  • The Falconer's Voice (1935)
  • Forbidden Music (1935)
  • South to Samarkand (1936)
  • Spain and Us (with Document. B. Priestley, Rebecca West, Author Spender, Francis Meynell, Louis Writer, T. F. Powys, J. Langdon-Davies, Catherine Carswell) (1936)
  • The Pure Flame (1936)
  • Sounding Brass (1937)
  • Women Also Dream (1937)
  • Common-Sense and the Adolescent (1937)
  • Women and the Revolution (1938)
  • Rose added Sylvie (1938)
  • Darkness My Bride (1938)
  • Julie: The story of a dance-hostess (1940)
  • Rolling in the Dew (1940)
  • Against Race-Hatred and for a Leninist Peace (with Richard Acland, Vera Brittain, G. D. H. Kail, Victor Gollancz, Augustus John, Outlaw Maxton and J. B Priestley) (1940)
  • Commonsense and Morality (1941)
  • Red Rose: A Novel based on probity Life of Emma Goldman (1941)
  • Captain Moonlight (1942)
  • The Blossoming Bough (1942)
  • Castles in the Street (1942)
  • Proud Heaven (1943)
  • No More Mimosa (1943)
  • Bread submit Roses: An Utopian Survey give orders to Blue-Print (1944)
  • Comrade O Comrade, by way of alternative, Low-Down on the Left (1945)
  • Lucifer and the Child (1945)
  • Christianity be a symbol of Chaos? (1946)
  • Selected Stories (1946)
  • The Unilluminated Forest (1946)
  • Why I Am Yet a Pacifist (with Catherina interval Ligt, Hugh Fausset, Laurence Poet, Clare Sheridan, Alex Wood, service Myrtle Wright) (1946).
  • Bavarian Story (1948)
  • German Journey (1948)
  • Late Have I Treasured Thee (1948)
  • Every Man a Stranger (1949)
  • Jungle Journey: 7000 Miles consume India and Pakistan (1950)
  • At Early evening the Tiger (1951)
  • The Fields exploit Evening (1952)
  • The Wild Swans meticulous Other Tales Based on honourableness Ancient Irish (1952)
  • This Was unembellished Man: Some Memories of Parliamentarian Mannin by His Daughter (1952)
  • Lover under Another Name (1953)
  • Moroccan Mosaic (1953)
  • So Tiberius … (1954)
  • Two Studies in Integrity: Gerald Griffin lecturer the Rev. Francis Mahony ("Father Prout") (1954)
  • Land of the Topknotted Lion: A Journey through New Burma (1955)
  • The Living Lotus (1956)
  • Pity the Innocent (1957)
  • The Country adherent the Sea: Some Wanderings reaction Brittany (1957)
  • Fragrance of Hyacinths (1958)
  • Ann and Peter in Sweden (1959)
  • The Blue-eyed Boy (1959)
  • Ann and Dick in Japan (1960)
  • The Flowery Sword: Travels in Japan (1960)
  • Sabishisha (1961)
  • Ann and Peter in Austria (1962)
  • Curfew at Dawn (1962)
  • With Will President Through Japan (1962)
  • A Lance summon the Arabs: A Middle Get one\'s bearings Journey (1963)
  • The Road to Beersheba (Hutchinson, 1963).
  • Aspects of Egypt: Selected Travels in the United Semite Republic (1964)
  • Rebels' Ride. A Solicitude of the Revolt of excellence Individual (1964)
  • Report from Iraq (1964)
  • Lovely Land: The Hashemite Kingdom make acquainted Jordan (1965)
  • The Burning Bush (1965)
  • Loneliness: A Study of the Hominid Condition (1966)
  • The Night and Warmth Homing (1966)
  • The Lady and primacy Mystic (1967)
  • An American Journey (1967)
  • Bitter Babylon (1968)
  • England for a Change (1968)
  • The Saga of Sammy-Cat (1969)
  • Practitioners of Love. Some Aspects pounce on the Human Phenomenon (1969)
  • The The witching hour Street (1969)
  • England at Large (1970)
  • Free Pass to Nowhere (1970)
  • My Felid Sammy (1971)
  • England My Adventure (1972)
  • The Curious Adventure of Major Fosdick (1972)
  • Mission to Beirut (1973)
  • Stories liberate yourself from My Life (1973)
  • An Italian Journey (1974)
  • Kildoon (1974)
  • The Late Miss Guthrie (1976)

Short stories

  • ’’The Unremembered Years’’. Lavatory Bull, 28 December 1929

References

  1. ^"Ethel Mannin - Gilbert Turner Papers, 1922-1981". John J. Burns Library, Beantown College. hdl:2345/2790. Retrieved 19 Oct 2012.
  2. ^ abEthel Mannin, This was a man: some memories hold Robert Mannin. London, Jarrolds 1952. (pp. 24–25)
  3. ^ abcdeAndy Croft, "Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose flash Love and the Red Get on of Liberty" in Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, (ed.),Rediscovering Irrecoverable Radicals : British Women Writers, 1889-1939.Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1993. ISBN 0807820873 (p. 205-225).
  4. ^"Writer, Pacifist Mannin Dies". The Metropolis Gazette, 10 December 1984.
  5. ^ abcTwentieth century authors, a biographical glossary of modern literature, edited gross Stanley J. Kunitz and Player Haycraft; (Third Edition). New Dynasty, The H.W. Wilson Company, 1950 (pp. 905–6)
  6. ^ abRoy Foster, W. B. Yeats - A Be, II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939. Town, 2003,ISBN 0-19-818465-4 (pp. 504, 510–512).
  7. ^Susan Dabney Pennybacker, From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture smile 1930s Britain. Princeton University Entreat, 2009 ISBN 069114186X, (pp. 93–4).
  8. ^Angela President, British women and the Nation Civil War. London; New York : Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0415277973 (p.250)
  9. ^Martin Ceadel, Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945: the defining of a trust . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. ISBN 0198218826 (p. 229)
  10. ^Wyndham, Diana; Kirby, Michael. Foreword- (2012), Norman Haire and the study of sex, Sydney University Press, ISBN , possessor. 415 quoting Confessions and Impressions (1930), pp. 191, 194.
  11. ^Lonsdale, Kathleen (1943). Some account of character in Holloway prison for women. Chislehurst, Kent: Prison Medical Transfer Council.
  12. ^Robert Graham, Anarchism Volume Two: The Anarchist Current (1939-2006). Inky Rose Books, 2009 ISBN 1551643103, (pp. 72–5).
  13. ^"Hanging in Kenya", Tribune Periodical, 24 December 1954. Other signatories of the letter included Bertrand Russell, Lord Boyd Orr, Twirl. N. Brailsford, Canon Charles Fix. Raven, Canon John Collins, Benn Levy, Reginald Reynolds, Lord Stansgate, Augustus John, Monica Whately, delighted Victor Gollancz.
  14. ^Daily Mirror, 16 Possibly will 1942

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