Red Ellen by Caroline Bird

Red Ellen

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Red Ellen by Caroline Bird
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Red Ellen

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Red Ellen

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Forever on the right side of history, but on the wrong side of life, Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson is caught between revolutionary and parliamentary politics as she fights for a better world.

Battling to save Jewish refugees in Nazi Germany; campaigning for Britain to aid the fight against Franco's Fascists in Spain; leading two hundred workers in the Jarrow Crusade against unemployment and poverty... she pursues each cause with a passionate, reckless conviction.

And yet - despite a life spent running into the likes of Albert Einstein and Ernest Hemingway, serving in Churchill's cabinet, having affairs with communist spies and government ministers - she still finds herself, somehow, on the outside looking in.

Caroline Bird's play Red Ellen is the remarkable true story of an inspiring and brilliant woman. It was first produced by Northern Stage, Nottingham Playhouse and the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh in 2022.
Book Details
Publisher:
Nick Hern Books
ISBN:
9781839040665
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Authors:
Caroline Bird
Published Date:
2023-04-18
Language:
English
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Caroline Bird English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh European Women Authors

About Caroline Bird

British poet and playwright Caroline Bird won the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection for The Air Year (Carcanet, 2020), which was also shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and the Polari Prize. Born in Leeds in 1986, she published her debut, Looking Through Letterboxes (Carcanet, 2002), at fifteen. In These Days of Prohibition (Carcanet, 2017) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Ted Hughes Award, and Ambush at Still Lake followed from Carcanet in 2024. She won the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award twice and received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002. She teaches for the Arvon Foundation.

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