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).
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Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, Economic policy, Fascism, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, National socialism, Politics and government, Propaganda, Anti-German, Socialism, Capitalism, Capitalists and financiers, Coal miners, Coal mines and mining, England, fiction, English Detective and mystery stories, English fiction, Fathers and daughters, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, crime, Fiction, general, Food relief, Food supply, General Strike, Great Britain, 1926, Golden Age mystery, HistoryID Numbers
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