Evelyn Sharp

At the Relton Arms (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

At the Relton Arms written by Evelyn Sharp. Published by ROBERTS BROS in 1895. Copyright, 1895, by ROBERTS BROTHERS. Evelyn Sharp was English writer and suffragette, who joined the famous Yellow Book staff in 1895 and began publishing stories, articles, novels, and books for children. As a pacifist and feminist, she became deeply committed to doing relief work in Germany after World War I, and her concern in the welfare of children led her to writing The London Child (1927) and The Child Grows Up (1929), two studies of working‐class life, and The African Child (1931), which deals with social conditions in Africa. Her fairy‐tale books for children, Wymps and Other Fairy Tales (1897), All the Way to Fairyland (1898), The Other Side of the Sun (1900), Round the World to Wympland (1902), were written early in her career and were not as explicitly political as her other writings

Produktdetails

• Verlag: BookRix
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783730981566
• Artikelnr.: 54679943

Autorenporträt

Evelyn Jane Sharp (1869-1955) was a key figure in two major British women's suffrage societies, the militant Women's Social and Political Union and the United Suffragists. She helped found the latter and became editor of Votes for Women during the First World War. She was twice imprisoned and became a tax resister. An established author who had published in The Yellow Book, she was especially well known for her children's fiction. Evelyn Sharp, the ninth of eleven children, was born on 4 August 1869.[2] Sharp's family sent her to a boarding school for just two years, yet she successfully passed several university local examinations. In 1894, against the wishes of her family, Sharp moved to London, where she wrote and published several novels including All the Way to Fairyland (1898) and The Other Side of the Sun (1900).[3][4] In 1903 Sharp, with the help of her friend and lover, Henry Nevinson, began to find work writing articles for the Daily Chronicle, the Pall Mall Gazette and the Manchester Guardian, a newspaper that published her work for over thirty years.[3] Sharp highlights the importance of Nevinson and the Men's League for Women's Suffrage: "It is impossible to rate too highly the sacrifices that they (Henry Nevinson and Laurence Housman) and H. N. Brailsford, F. W. Pethick Lawrence, Harold Laski, Israel Zangwill, Gerald Gould, George Lansbury, and many others made to keep our movement free from the suggestion of a sex war."[5] Sharp's journalism made her more aware of the problems of working-class women and she joined the Women's Industrial Council and the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. In the autumn of 1906 Sharp was sent by the Manchester Guardian to cover the first speech by actress and novelist Elizabeth Robins. Sharp was moved by Robins' arguments for militant action and she joined the Women's Social and Political Union