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You’re between two fires… They’re very warm sometimes. Noah Adamson is the first Leader of the Labour Party; frequently torn between his socialism and principled support for votes for women on the one hand and the more reactionary views of too many of his colleagues on the other. A middle-aged married man; he is also in love with the young socialist suffragette Freda McLaird. Things look bleak for the cause and the man. Still Noah – inspired by his soulmate – has time for hope and beauty. He looks forward to a time when the movement will be stronger. Sylvia Pankhurst wrote this previously unpublished play when imprisoned for sedition in the infamous HMP Holloway in 1920/21. Deprived of writing materials in solitary confinement, the legendary activist composed this dramatisation of earlier times with her beloved Keir Hardie – Labour’s founding leader – with a contraband pencil on prison issue toilet paper. It would be nearly a hundred years before Pankhurst’s biographer Rachel Holmes would discover the play via painstaking analysis of the delicate fragments jumbled into brown envelopes in the archives of the British Library. Holmes’ arrangement of the incomplete text brings the poignant story to life in this startlingly topical drama that speaks directly to our own times.

Between Two Fires

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You’re between two fires… They’re very warm sometimes. Noah Adamson is the first Leader of the Labour Party; frequently torn... Read more

    Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    Publication Date: 16/09/2022
    ISBN13: 9781350353848, 978-1350353848
    ISBN10: 1350353841

    Number of Pages: 48

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    You’re between two fires… They’re very warm sometimes. Noah Adamson is the first Leader of the Labour Party; frequently torn between his socialism and principled support for votes for women on the one hand and the more reactionary views of too many of his colleagues on the other. A middle-aged married man; he is also in love with the young socialist suffragette Freda McLaird. Things look bleak for the cause and the man. Still Noah – inspired by his soulmate – has time for hope and beauty. He looks forward to a time when the movement will be stronger. Sylvia Pankhurst wrote this previously unpublished play when imprisoned for sedition in the infamous HMP Holloway in 1920/21. Deprived of writing materials in solitary confinement, the legendary activist composed this dramatisation of earlier times with her beloved Keir Hardie – Labour’s founding leader – with a contraband pencil on prison issue toilet paper. It would be nearly a hundred years before Pankhurst’s biographer Rachel Holmes would discover the play via painstaking analysis of the delicate fragments jumbled into brown envelopes in the archives of the British Library. Holmes’ arrangement of the incomplete text brings the poignant story to life in this startlingly topical drama that speaks directly to our own times.

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