Ellen Cicely Wilkinson

Ellen C. Wilkinson, M.A., P.C., was born in the Midlands of the U.K. and educated at Ardwick Higher Elementary School and the University of Manchester. She worked as an organizer for the Union of Women's Suffrage Societies from 1913 to 1915 and thereafter for the Union of Distributive and Allied Workers. On the Manchester City Council from 1923 to 1926, she became Labour M.P. for Middlesbrough East (1924-1931) and for Jarrow (1935-1947), then Parliamentary Private Secretary to several Ministers from 1940, and Minister from 1945 until her death. Her avocations were golf, reading, and chess. She published Clash, a novel (1929), Peeps at Politicians (1930), the mystery novel The Division Bell Mystery (1932), Why War?, and Why Fascism? (both in 1934).

British Labour Party politician (1891–1947)

Born	1891
Died	1947

16 works Add another?

Most Editions

Most Editions First Published Most Recent Top Rated Reading Log Trending Random

Details Grid — Show only ebooks?

Preview

Preview Book
×Close

The Division Bell Mystery

by Ellen Cicely Wilkinson First published in 1931 — 8 editions
Borrow

Listen

Locate
My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Create a new list
×Close

Name:

Description:

Cancel
Clash

by Ellen Cicely Wilkinson First published in 1929 — 3 editions

Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list
Clash: a novel

by Ellen Cicely Wilkinson First published in 1929 — 2 editions

Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list
terror in Germany: being an account of some of the Nazi outrages in Germany under Hitler, with photographs. Compiled from witnessed and authenticated documents, medical certificates, and personal observation.

by Ellen Cicely Wilkinson First published in 1930 — 2 editions

Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list
Preview

The town that was murdered: the life-story of Jarrow

by Ellen Cicely Wilkinson First published in 1939 — 2 editions
Borrow

Listen

Locate
My Reading Lists:

Create a new list
Why fascism?

by Ellen Cicely Wilkinson First published in 1934 — 2 editions

Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list
Clash

by Ellen Cicely Wilkinson First published in 1993 — 1 edition

Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list
Feed the children: what is being done to relieve the victims of the fascist regime

by Ellen Cicely Wilkinson First published in 1933 — 1 edition

Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list
Why fascism? By Ellen Wilkinson & Edward Conze.

by Ellen Cicely Wilkinson First published in 1973 — 1 edition

Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list
Why war?: A handbook for those who will take part in the second world war

by Ellen Cicely Wilkinson First published in 1934 — 1 edition

Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list
Peeps at politicians

by Ellen Cicely Wilkinson First published in 1930 — 1 edition

Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list
Plan for peace.

by Ellen Cicely Wilkinson First published in 1945 — 1 edition

Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list
The town that was murdered: the life-story of Jarrow

by Ellen Cicely Wilkinson First published in 1939 — 1 edition

Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list
Why fascism

by Ellen Cicely Wilkinson First published in 1934 — 1 edition

Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list
Why war?: a handbook for those who will take part in the Second World War

by Ellen Cicely Wilkinson First published in 1934 — 1 edition

Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list
General Strike pamphlets

by Arthur L. Goodhart, Raymond Postgate, A. J. Cook, Hamilton Fyfe, Ellen Cicely Wilkinson, James Francis Horrabin, C. B., Solomon Abramovich Dridzo, and Fritz Heckert First published in 1926 — 1 edition

Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

British Labour Party politician (1891–1947)

Born	1891
Died	1947

Add to List

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

ID Numbers

OLID: OL920092A
ISNI: 0000000083645445
IMDb: nm2801796
Library of Congress Names: n50017331
LibriVox: 10357
VIAF: 22977471
Wikidata: Q332751
Inventaire.io: wd:Q332751

Links outside Open Library

No links yet. Add one?

Alternative names

Ellen Wilkinson
Ellen C. Wilkinson

History

Created April 1, 2008
8 revisions

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON

August 1, 2025	Edited by WikidataBot	[sync_author_identifiers_with_wikidata] add wikidata remote identifiers
June 28, 2022	Edited by M C W	Added publisher's bio
September 27, 2020	Edited by MARC Bot	add ISNI
May 16, 2017	Edited by MARC Bot	merge authors
April 1, 2008	Created by an anonymous user	initial import