it's kat! · @kathimmel
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‘[i’m] more than ever convinced of the necessity for social revolution.'

/#history: who is this bauhaus babe, looking like some sort of goth flapper? she’s ethel mannin & she’s my kind of weirdo. between the ages of 19 & 77, ethel wrote over 95 books. edith’s 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).
she was an iconoclast: anti-monarchy, anti-fascist, anti-blood sports (to read: ‘against race-hatred & for a socialist peace’) & long-serving chairperson for shrewsbury town FC.
ethel also had a much publicised affair with bertrand russell. can you imagine the room that could accommodate their combined intellect?

#literature #socialism #Portrait #MastoArt #EthelMannin #Art

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