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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.

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Book Details

ISBN:
9781839040665
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Authors:
Caroline Bird
Publisher:
Nick Hern Books
Published Date:
2023-04-18
Language:
English

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About the poet: Caroline Bird

Caroline Bird (born in Leeds, England) is one of the most acclaimed British poets and playwrights of her generation, known for her wit, formal range, and psychological intensity. Her collection The Air Year (Carcanet, 2020) won the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the Costa Poetry Award, and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her debut collection, Looking Through Letterboxes (2002), appeared when she was fifteen. Her other collections include Trouble Came to the Turnip (2006) and In These Days of Prohibition (2017). She has been shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and the Folio Prize, and her stage plays have won multiple Off West End Awards. She teaches at the Arvon Foundation.

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