Maxine Peake on Ellen Wilkinson
Great Lives
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The Influence of a Woman in Politics
Her father was a Wesleyan Methodist, I think. And she used to come back from sermons and sort of stand on a box and preach to her grandma - who doesn't go well and couldn't get out. She had these fantastic journalist skills, and she wrote in publications like Time and Tide which people at Virginia will throw on D.H. Lawrence and Rebecca West. Her novels are absolutely fantastic, and we have one of the first editions of Clash, a novel at the People's History Museum. When did she start getting interested in politics? "She'd been interested in politics from quite a young age"
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