Ethel Mannin

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Ethel Mannin
Ethel Mannin on 6 June 1939
Ethel Mannin on 6 June 1939
BornEthel Edith Mannin
(1900-10-06)6 October 1900
Clapham, London, England, UK
Died5 December 1984(1984-12-05) (aged 84)
Teignmouth, Devon, England, UK
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • Travel writer
  • Activist
Spouse
John Alexander Porteus
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(m. 1919; sep. 1929)​
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(m. 1938; died 1958)​
Children1

Ethel Edith Mannin (6 October 1900

political activist and socialist. She was born in London
.

Life and career

Mannin's father, Robert Mannin (d. 1948) was a member of the

paperbacks.[4]

She initially supported the

Second World War.[9]

Mannin listed

blood sports".[5]

Mannin's 1944 book Bread and Roses: A Utopian Survey and Blue-Print has been described by historian

ecological vision in opposition to the prevailing and destructive industrial organization of society".[11]

In 1954, Mannin was one of several signatories to a letter protesting against mass executions of Kenyans by the colonial government who had been "charged with offences less than murder".[12]

In her seventies, Mannin still described herself as an anti-monarchist "Republican" and a "

Tolstoyan anarchist".[3]

She married twice: in 1919, a short-lived relationship from which she gained one daughter, Jean Porteous, a

Dorothy Wellesley (a detailed account is in R. F. Foster's life of Yeats, concluding mainly that her emotional engagement was much less than his).[6] She also had 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: A Chapter of Autobiography (1971)
  • Sunset over Dartmoor: A Final Chapter of Autobiography (1977)

Other works

  • Martha (1923)
  • Hunger of the Sea (1924)
  • Sounding Brass (1925)
  • Three New Love Stories (1925) with Warwick Deeping and Gilbert Frankau
  • Pilgrims (1927)
  • Green Willows (1928)
  • Crescendo, Being the 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 Eden and Other Stories (1931)
  • All Experience (1932)
  • Linda Shawn (1932)
  • Love's Winnowing (1932)
  • Venetian Blinds (1933)
  • Dryad (1933) stories
  • Men Are Unwise (1934)
  • Some Adventures With A 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 J. B. Priestley, Rebecca West, Stephen Spender, Francis Meynell, Louis Golding, 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 and 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 Socialist Peace (with Richard Acland, Vera Brittain, G. D. H. Cole, Victor Gollancz, Augustus John, James Maxton and J. B Priestley) (1940)
  • Commonsense and Morality (1941)
  • Red Rose: A Novel based on the 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 and Roses: An Utopian Survey and Blue-Print (1944)
  • Comrade O Comrade, or, Low-Down on the Left (1945)
  • Lucifer and the Child (1945)
  • Christianity or Chaos? (1946)
  • Selected Stories (1946)
  • The Dark Forest (1946)
  • Why I Am Still a Pacifist (with Catherina de Ligt, Hugh Fausset, Laurence Housman, Clare Sheridan, Alex Wood, and Myrtle Wright) (1946).
  • Bavarian Story (1948)
  • German Journey (1948)
  • Late Have I Loved Thee (1948)
  • Every Man a Stranger (1949)
  • Jungle Journey: 7000 Miles through India and Pakistan (1950)
  • At Sundown the Tiger (1951)
  • The Fields at Evening (1952)
  • The Wild Swans and Other Tales Based on the Ancient Irish (1952)
  • This Was a Man: Some Memories of Robert Mannin by His Daughter (1952)
  • Lover under Another Name (1953)
  • Moroccan Mosaic (1953)
  • So Tiberius … (1954)
  • Two Studies in Integrity: Gerald Griffin and the Rev. Francis Mahony ("Father Prout") (1954)
  • Land of the Crested Lion: A Journey through Modern Burma (1955)
  • The Living Lotus (1956)
  • Pity the Innocent (1957)
  • The Country of the Sea: Some Wanderings in Brittany (1957)
  • Fragrance of Hyacinths (1958)
  • Ann and Peter in Sweden (1959)
  • The Blue-eyed Boy (1959)
  • Ann and Peter in Japan (1960)
  • The Flowery Sword: Travels in Japan (1960)
  • Sabishisha (1961)
  • Ann and Peter in Austria (1962)
  • Curfew at Dawn (1962)
  • With Will Adams Through Japan (1962)
  • A Lance for the Arabs: A Middle East Journey (1963)
  • The Road to
    Hutchinson
    , 1963).
  • Aspects of Egypt: Some Travels in the United Arab Republic (1964)
  • Rebels' Ride. A Consideration of the Revolt of the Individual (1964)
  • Report from Iraq (1964)
  • Lovely Land: The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (1965)
  • The Burning Bush (1965)
  • Loneliness: A Study of the Human Condition (1966)
  • The Night and Its Homing (1966)
  • The Lady and the 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 of the Human Phenomenon (1969)
  • The Midnight Street (1969)
  • England at Large (1970)
  • Free Pass to Nowhere (1970)
  • My Cat Sammy (1971)
  • England My Adventure (1972)
  • The Curious Adventure of Major Fosdick (1972)
  • Mission to Beirut (1973)
  • Stories from My Life (1973)
  • An Italian Journey (1974)
  • Kildoon (1974)
  • The Late Miss Guthrie (1976)

Short stories

  • ’’The Unremembered Years’’. John Bull, 28 December 1929

References

  1. hdl:2345/2790
    . Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  2. ^ a b Ethel Mannin, This was a man: some memories of Robert Mannin. London, Jarrolds 1952. (pp. 24–25)
  3. ^
    ISBN 0807820873
    (p. 205-225).
  4. ^ "Writer, Pacifist Mannin Dies". The Montreal Gazette, 10 December 1984.
  5. ^
    Stanley J. Kunitz
    and Howard Haycraft; (Third Edition). New York, The H.W. Wilson Company, 1950 (pp. 905–6)
  6. ^
    ISBN 0-19-818465-4
    (pp. 504, 510–512).
  7. ISBN 069114186X
    , (pp. 93–4).
  8. ISBN 0415277973
    (p.250)
  9. ISBN 0198218826
    (p. 229)
  10. ISBN 978-1-74332-006-8
    , p. 415 quoting Confessions and Impressions (1930), pp. 191, 194.
  11. ISBN 1551643103
    , (pp. 72–5).
  12. Lord Boyd Orr, H. N. Brailsford, Canon Charles E. Raven, Canon John Collins, Benn Levy, Reginald Reynolds, Lord Stansgate, Augustus John, Monica Whately, and Victor Gollancz
    .
  13. ^ Daily Mirror, 16 May 1942

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