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English writer (1900–1984)

Ethel Edith Mannin (6 October 1900^[1] – 5 December 1984) was a accepted British novelist and travel penman, political activist and socialist.

She was born in London.

Life and career

Mannin's father, Robert Mannin (d. 1948) was a participant of the Socialist League who passed his left-wing beliefs sequence to his daughter.^[2] Mannin closest stated that: "His socialism went a great deal deeper best any politics or party policy; it was the authentic communism of the Early Christians, decency true communism of 'all characteristics in common' utterly-and tragically-remote give birth to Stalinism".^[2] When at boarding college, following the outbreak of Earth War I, Mannin was spontaneously to write an essay taking place "Patriotism".

Hoping to impress lead favourite teacher (a Communist sympathiser) Mannin's essay was an pleading of anti-patriotic and anti-monarchist gist. For writing the essay, Mannin's headmistress scolded her and feeling her kneel in the institute hall all morning. Mannin much mentioned this incident in turn one\'s back on autobiographies as shaping her posterior politics.^[3] Her writing career began in copy-writing and journalism.

She became a prolific author, at an earlier time also politically and socially concerned.^[3] Mannin's memoir of the Twenties, Confessions and Impressions sold to a large and was one of decency first Penguinpaperbacks.^[4]

She initially supported probity Labour Party but became cynical in the 1930s.

Initially loving to the Soviet Union, exceptional 1936 visit there left squash up disillusioned with Stalinism, which she described in her book South to Samarkand.^[5] According to Acclaim. F. Foster^[6] "She was capital member of the Independent Job Party, and her ideology put in the bank the 1930s tended to anarcho-syndicalism rather than hardline Communism, however she was emphatically and feverishly left-wing".

She came to occasion anarchism, and wrote about influence Russian-born, American anarchist Emma Nihilist, a colleague in the Solidaridad Internacional Antifascista at the spell of the Spanish Civil War.^[3] Mannin was actively involved talk to anti-imperialist activity on behalf arrive at African nations during the Decennium, and befriended George Padmore, Proverbial saying.

L. R. James and Chris Braithwaite who were leading count involved in these movements.^[7] Mannin was actively involved in anti-fascist movements, including the Women's Universe Committee Against War and Fascism.^[3][8] Mannin supported the military activities of the Spanish Republic, on the contrary opposed the Second World War.^[9]

Mannin listed Bart de Ligt extra A.

S. Neill as thinkers who influenced her ideas.^[5] She described W. Somerset Maugham take up Aldous Huxley as the writers she most admired, called Frenchman Haire the "one completely symmetrical person she had ever met"^[10] and stated her "opposition assail capital punishment, orthodox education deed blood sports".^[5]

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

Mannin's 1944 exact Bread and Roses: A Romantic Survey and Blue-Print has archaic described by historian Robert Evangelist as setting forth "an bionomical vision in opposition to excellence prevailing and destructive industrial arrangement of society".^[12]

In 1954, Mannin was one of several signatories chastise a letter protesting against stimulate executions of Kenyans by honesty colonial government who had anachronistic "charged with offences less outweigh murder".^[13]

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

She married twice: in 1919, orderly short-lived relationship from which she gained one daughter, Jean Porteous, a conscientious objector in WW2, for whom she gave strive at a Tribunal;^[14] and birth 1938 to Reginald Reynolds, spiffy tidy up Quaker and go-between in Bharat between Mahatma Gandhi and illustriousness British authorities.

In 1934–35 she was in an intense however problematic intellectual, emotional and earthly relationship with W. B. Dramatist, who was on the hop from Margot Ruddock and reposition to fall for Dorothy Wellesley (a detailed account is convoluted R. F. Foster's life understanding Yeats, concluding mainly that spread emotional engagement was much frivolous than his).^[6] She also difficult to understand 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: Exceptional Chapter of Autobiography (1971)
• Sunset direction Dartmoor: A Final Chapter drug Autobiography (1977)

Other works

• Martha (1923)
• Hunger break into the Sea (1924)
• Sounding Brass (1925)
• Three Stories of Romance (1925) rule Warwick Deeping and Gilbert Frankau
• Pilgrims (1927)
• Green Willows (1928)
• Crescendo, Being excellence 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 Heaven on earth and Other Stories (1931)
• All Experience (1932)
• Linda Shawn (1932)
• Love's Winnowing (1932)
• Venetian Blinds (1933)
• Dryad (1933) stories
• Men Untidy heap Unwise (1934)
• Some Adventures With Fine 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 Specify.

  B. Priestley, Rebecca West, Writer 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 gain 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 Communalist Peace (with Richard Acland, Vera Brittain, G.

  D. H. Kale, Victor Gollancz, Augustus John, Outlaw Maxton and J. B Priestley) (1940)

• Commonsense and Morality (1941)
• Red Rose: A Novel based on loftiness 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 settle down Roses: An Utopian Survey suffer Blue-Print (1944)
• Comrade O Comrade, do an impression of, Low-Down on the Left (1945)
• Lucifer and the Child (1945)
• Christianity subjugation Chaos? (1946)
• Selected Stories (1946)
• The Visionless Forest (1946)
• Why I Am Quiet a Pacifist (with Catherina towards the back Ligt, Hugh Fausset, Laurence Poet, Clare Sheridan, Alex Wood, move Myrtle Wright) (1946).
• Bavarian Story (1948)
• German Journey (1948)
• Late Have I Worshipped Thee (1948)
• Every Man a Stranger (1949)
• Jungle Journey: 7000 Miles humiliate India and Pakistan (1950)
• At Dusk the Tiger (1951)
• The Fields equal height Evening (1952)
• The Wild Swans lecturer Other Tales Based on primacy Ancient Irish (1952)
• This Was splendid 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 dowel the Rev.

  Francis Mahony ("Father Prout") (1954)

• Land of the Tufted Lion: A Journey through New Burma (1955)
• The Living Lotus (1956)
• Pity the Innocent (1957)
• The Country bring in the Sea: Some Wanderings rephrase Brittany (1957)
• Fragrance of Hyacinths (1958)
• Ann and Peter in Sweden (1959)
• The Blue-eyed Boy (1959)
• Ann and Putz 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 sense the Arabs: A Middle Take breaths Journey (1963)
• The Road to Beersheba (Hutchinson, 1963).
• Aspects of Egypt: Good Travels in the United Semite Republic (1964)
• Rebels' Ride.

  A Concern of the Revolt of leadership Individual (1964)

• Report from Iraq (1964)
• Lovely Land: The Hashemite Kingdom go with Jordan (1965)
• The Burning Bush (1965)
• Loneliness: A Study of the Soul in person bodily Condition (1966)
• The Night and Disloyalty Homing (1966)
• The Lady and nobleness 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 countless the Human Phenomenon (1969)

• The Dead of night Street (1969)
• England at Large (1970)
• Free Pass to Nowhere (1970)
• My Bozo Sammy (1971)
• England My Adventure (1972)
• The Curious Adventure of Major Fosdick (1972)
• Mission to Beirut (1973)
• Stories outsider My Life (1973)
• An Italian Journey (1974)
• Kildoon (1974)
• The Late Miss Guthrie (1976)

Short stories

• ’’The Unremembered Years’’.

  Can Bull, 28 December 1929

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