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100	1		_aBeers, Laura, _d1978- _eauthor. _9109185
245	1	0	_aRed Ellen : _bthe life of Ellen Wilkinson socialist, feminist, internationalist / _cLaura Beers.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts ; _aLondon : _bHarvard University Press, _c2016.
300			_aviii, 532 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, portraits
336			_atext _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aThe only girl who talks in school debates -- Ellen's Great War -- On the road to radicalization -- From Ireland to Russia -- A woman candidate with communistic views -- The mighty atom bursts into Parliament -- Nine days that (almost) shook the world -- No longer upsetting the apple cart -- Out of parliament -- On the international stage -- A fight for humanity itself -- Pursuing social justice in Britain and beyond -- The anti-fascist tribune -- Ellen is now a minister -- Reforming education -- Death of a good comrade.
520			_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 steel workers 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.-- _cProvided by publisher
600	1	0	_aWilkinson, Ellen Cicely, _d1891-1947. _9101616
610	2	0	_aCommunist Party of Great Britain _xHistory. _91821
610	2	0	_aLabour Party (Great Britain) _xHistory. _95203
650		0	_aWomen politicians _zGreat Britain _xBiography. _949644
650		0	_aFeminism _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century. _931777
650		0	_aInternationalists _zGreat Britain _xBiography _960349
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