LEADER 03816nam 22005175 450 001 9910136675803321 005 20230810001125.0 010 $a0-674-97269-4 010 $a0-674-97271-6 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674972711 035 $a(CKB)3710000000907442 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4717133 035 $a(DE-B1597)479791 035 $a(OCoLC)984520718 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674972711 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000907442 100 $a20170310d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aRed Ellen $eThe Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist /$fLaura Beers 210 1$aCambridge, MA : $cHarvard University Press, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (569 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-674-97152-3 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The Only Girl Who Talks in School Debates -- $t2. Ellen?s Great War -- $t3. On the Road to Radicalization -- $t4. From Ireland to Russia -- $t5. A Woman Candidate with Communistic Views -- $t6. The Mighty Atom Bursts into Parliament -- $t7. Nine Days That (Almost) Shook the World -- $t8. No Longer Upsetting the Apple Cart -- $t9. Out of Parliament -- $t10. On the International Stage -- $t11. A Fight for Humanity Itself -- $t12. Pursuing Social Justice in Britain and Beyond -- $t13. The Anti-Fascist Tribune -- $t14. Ellen Is Now a Minister -- $t15. Reforming Education -- $t16. Death of a Good Comrade -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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 range of backgrounds sought to reshape domestic, imperial, and international affairs. Wilkinson is best remembered as the leader of the Jarrow Crusade, the 300-mile march of two hundred unemployed shipwrights and steelworkers to petition the British government for assistance. But this was just one small part of Red Ellen?s larger transnational fight for social justice. She was involved in a range of campaigns, from the quest for official recognition of the Spanish Republican government, to the fight for Indian independence, to the effort to smuggle Jewish refugees out of Germany. During Wilkinson?s lifetime, many British radicals viewed themselves as members of an international socialist community, and some, like her, 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, Red Ellen adjusts our perception of the British Left in the early twentieth century. 606 $aStateswomen$zGreat Britain$vBiography 606 $aStatesmen$zGreat Britain$vBiography 606 $aFeminism$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aInternationalists$zGreat Britain$vBiography 615 0$aStateswomen 615 0$aStatesmen 615 0$aFeminism$xHistory 615 0$aInternationalists 676 $a328.41092 700 $aBeers$b Laura.$01249583 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136675803321 996 $aRed Ellen$92895741 997 $aUNINA