**‘[i’m] more than ever convinced of the necessity for social revolution.'**
#art #history: anti-fash author & all round superb goth babe, ethel mannin, was born #otd in 1900. if you fancy a fuller argument about why she's worth your time, see thread below.
#ethelMannin #author #socialist #antifascist #writer #literature #illustration #shrewsburyFC
ethel mannin is my kind of weirdo. between the ages of 19 & 77, ethel wrote over 95 books.
her canon comprised everything from romance novels to travelogues & 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).
#ethelMannin #literature #atheism #art #anarchy
she led a funny, old life &, 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
compulsion. she was still an iconoclast, though: **anti-monarchy, anti-fascist, anti-blood sports **(to read: ‘against race-hatred & for a socialist peace’) & long-serving chairperson for shrewsbury town FC. one of my favourite stories about ethel is that she devotes an entire
#antifascism #illustration #ethelMannin #huntSabs
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 & 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.
#literature #ethelMannin #author #writer #illustration
turns out, it was a compendium of explicit pornography. apropos (or not), **ethel also had a much publicised affair with bertrand russell**. can you
imagine the room that could accommodate their combined intellects?
#ethelMannin #bertrandRussell #literature #art #socialism
Albert Meltzer on Anarchist EM “influence”
https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/mpg58h
Wikipedia about EM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Mannin
Socialist BiographyChronology
https://isj.org.uk/ethel-mannin/
@peterjriley2024 i've previously read this, but thanks for reminding me of it. ethel's one of my favourite people.