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it's kat! 🇵🇸✊<p>i don&#39;t partake in sanctioned holidays, but i really hope that someone who does will run with my suggestion of a couple&#39;s costume: ethel mannin &amp; bertrand russell. <br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/halloween" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>halloween</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/costume" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>costume</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/halloweenCostume" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>halloweenCostume</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bertrandRussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bertrandRussell</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ethelMannin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ethelMannin</span></a></p>
it's kat! 🇵🇸✊<p>turns out, it was a compendium of explicit pornography. apropos (or not), **ethel also had a much publicised affair with bertrand russell**. can you <br />imagine the room that could accommodate their combined intellects?<br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ethelMannin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ethelMannin</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bertrandRussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bertrandRussell</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>socialism</span></a></p>
it's kat! 🇵🇸✊<p>chapter for her book, ‘stories from my life’, to a young chap she observed on a train journey from leeds to london. she was captivated by him &amp; noted down the book in which he seemed so absorbed that he didn’t take his eyes off it even to drink or eat. when she arrived home, she asked a librarian friend of hers to find the book for her. <br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ethelMannin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ethelMannin</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>illustration</span></a></p>
it's kat! 🇵🇸✊<p>she led a funny, old life &amp;, by all accounts, when she wrote her last book in 1977, it was as dull as dishwater because, by then, getting it all down on paper was a <br />compulsion. she was still an iconoclast, though: **anti-monarchy, anti-fascist, anti-blood sports **(to read: ‘against race-hatred &amp; for a socialist peace’) &amp; long-serving chairperson for shrewsbury town FC. one of my favourite stories about ethel is that she devotes an entire <br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>antifascism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ethelMannin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ethelMannin</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/huntSabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>huntSabs</span></a></p>
it's kat! 🇵🇸✊<p>ethel mannin is my kind of weirdo. between the ages of 19 &amp; 77, ethel wrote over 95 books.<br />her canon comprised everything from romance novels to travelogues &amp; memoirs - including an odd choice for an atheist that became, perhaps, her best known tome. ‘late have i loved thee’ was written about catholic conversion by a godless anarchist (the author, herself). <br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ethelMannin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ethelMannin</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/atheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>atheism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>anarchy</span></a></p>
it's kat! 🇵🇸✊<p>**‘[i’m] more than ever convinced of the necessity for social revolution.&#39;**<br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>history</span></a>: anti-fash author &amp; all round superb goth babe, ethel mannin, was born <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>otd</span></a> in 1900. if you fancy a fuller argument about why she&#39;s worth your time, see thread below.<br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ethelMannin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ethelMannin</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/socialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>socialist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/antifascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>antifascist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/shrewsburyFC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>shrewsburyFC</span></a></p>