Dora Montefiore: the half-forgotten socialist feminist
In its early phase, her life-story was a bit like a Barbara Cartland-style romance.
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In its early phase, her life-story was a bit like a Barbara Cartland-style romance.
In its early phase, her life-story was a bit like a Barbara Cartland-style romance. In the late 1870s, the conventional young Englishwoman, Dorothy Fuller, bred in a Victorian manor house in Surrey and educated there by governesses and private tutors, goes out to Australia to visit relations and there meets and falls in love with a fine, rich, young Australian, George Barrow Montefiore. After a short trip home, she goes back to Australia to stay.
Part of a series of articles on Connolly: workersliberty.org/connolly James Connolly, in support of Jim Larkin, led the workers of Dublin in the great Labour War of 1913-14. The attempt to get strike-bound children to families in Britain and Northern Ireland that would take care of them during the strike was a major event in the Labour War.
Part of a series of articles on Connolly: workersliberty.org/connolly James Connolly, in support of Jim Larkin, led the workers of Dublin in the great Labour War of 1913-14. The attempt to get strike-bound children to families in Britain and Northern Ireland that would take care of them during the strike was a major event in the Labour War.
The idea that there are three fronts in the class struggle was formulated by Frederick Engels when he praised the German socialists in these terms: