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Ellen Wilkinson
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Labour politician and member of the India League
Place of birth
Place of death
London
About
Ellen Wilkinson was a Labour politician and campaigner. She was an active member of the India League. In 1932, she was part of the League's delegation to India with Monica Whately, Krishna Menon and Leonard Matters. She was also a supporter of the Left Book Club. She was an outspoken opponent of the Spanish Civil War and campaigned against fascism.
Peeps at Politicians (London: P. Allan, 1930)
(with Monica Whately, Leonard W. Matters and V. K. Krishna Menon) Condition of India: Being the Report of the Delegation Sent to India by the India League in 1932 (London: Essential News, 1934)
Why Fascism (London: Selwyn & Blount, 1934)
Why War? A Handbook for Those Who Will Take Part in the Second World War (London: N.C.L.C. Publishing Society, 1934)
We Saw in Spain (Great Britain: Labour Party, 1937)
The Town That Was Murdered: The Life-Story of Jarrow (London: Gollancz, 1939) [Left Book Club edition]
Harrison, Brian, ‘Wilkinson, Ellen Cicely (1891–1947)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36902]
Vernon, Betty D., Ellen Wilkinson, 1887–1947 (London: Croom Helm, 1982)
Image credit
Ellen Cicely Wilkinson by Bassano Ltd, whole-plate glass negative, 25 June 1924, NPG x127853
© National Portrait Gallery, London, Creative Commons, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
