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She was converted to women's suffrage in In and she was briefly imprisoned. A pacifist, she continued her fight for the vote during the First World War, refusing to pay taxes. She worked in war-torn Germany and in famine areas of Russia in the nineteen-twenties. Her autobiography, An Unfinished Adventure , was published in The day she completed it book she married H. Nevinson, a fellow campaigning journalist and writer. Evelyn Sharp died in a nursing home in , depression and failing eyesight making her final years difficult ones.
Nevinson was a war correspondent and crusading international journalist whose interests ranged from the sufferings of the Albanians to the near slavery of bonded labourers in Angola. Sharp was 32 when they met, he was 13 years older. He was depressive and his love affairs were a treatment for his melancholy.
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His states of mind were exacerbated by an unhappy marriage to another radical writer, Margaret Nevinson. They had married when they were both young and she was pregnant, and then suffered almost fifty years of unhappy union. Margaret was a leading suffragist, the first woman Justice of the Peace in London and a Poor Law guardian. It might be thought less than sororital behaviour to be having sex with the husband of another suffragist, but if Sharp had any comment to make on the morality of the situation it is not recorded. All three wrote autobiographies, in none is the question of this affair addressed; Evelyn Sharp is notably coy about Nevinson and never refers to Margaret.
Nevinson had discovered that supporting radical causes put him in contact with progressive women who, as part of their commitment to the modern, did not require marriage before sex. He was not alone in this, H. Well, Edward Aveling and even the sainted Keir Hardie, made the same discovery. That is not to say their radicalism was insincere, but it is extraordinary how high ideals often run in parallel with personal desires. Indeed, his chief love was, and remained, the Irish nationalist Nannie Dryhurst. She was briefly imprisoned twice for suffragette activities and is the most famous of the tax resisters, refusing to pay income tax to a government where she was not represented.
This came to a head during the war when bailiffs in distrained her furniture, carpets, chairs, books and even her typewriter, leaving only her clothes and bed. Friends bought her goods back when they were sold at public auction. She was prepared to continue albeit a low-key campaign through the war years as were neither the militant suffragettes nor the constitutional suffragists.
She was, of course, correct: On her first morning she passed a corpse lying face down in the snow. This did not seem like progress. Nevinson, the war artist. She did not seem cut out for a leading role even in her own life; she was always a little girl in a big family. It is this that is reflected in the limitation of both these books: Angela John puts in all the information, but Sharp does not herself provide the spark that makes the difference between a biographical subject who comes alive and one who does not — Sharp just does not give enough of herself in her writing, she is always an observer.
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Sharp could have given us a powerful book had she told the true story of herself, Nevinson and Margaret but, as she perceptively points out in the preface to her autobiography, she was not courageous. She had the physical courage to face down mounted police at a demonstration and venture into areas of endemic typhus, but for courage as an artist, her contemporary George Egerton is a better bet from that s cohort of women writers. Times Literary Supplement 7 August Family life dominates New Fame, New Love , covering the period to , though this was a marriage made in the sort of English hell that Betjeman made his very own.
Within a year Penelope had gone off to Berlin to study and John was having an affair with Molly their maid. In the pattern of their relationship, Penelope made friends with Molly on her return. She preferred horses to people, anyway, though other animals were not unwelcome: Snowdrop the goat was allowed to come in and out of their house at will and it was not unusual to find chickens indoors. One of the more serious instances of this occurred when he met the Liberal Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, a severe, stuffed-shirt sort of character, on a London street.