{"product_id":"between-two-fires-paperback","title":"Between Two Fires - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSylvia Pankhurst\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRachel Holmes\u003c\/b\u003e (Volume Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou're between two fires...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey're very warm sometimes.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNoah Adamson is the first Leader of the Labour Party; frequently torn between his socialism and principled support for votes for women on the one hand and the more reactionary views of too many of his colleagues on the other. A middle-aged married man; he is also in love with the young socialist suffragette Freda McLaird. Things look bleak for the cause and the man. Still Noah - inspired by his soulmate - has time for hope and beauty. He looks forward to a time when the movement will be stronger. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSylvia Pankhurst wrote this previously unpublished play when imprisoned for sedition in the infamous HMP Holloway in 1920\/21. Deprived of writing materials in solitary confinement, the legendary activist composed this dramatisation of earlier times with her beloved Keir Hardie - Labour's founding leader - with a contraband pencil on prison issue toilet paper. It would be nearly a hundred years before Pankhurst's biographer Rachel Holmes would discover the play via painstaking analysis of the delicate fragments jumbled into brown envelopes in the archives of the British Library. Holmes' arrangement of the incomplete text brings the poignant story to life in this startlingly topical drama that speaks directly to our own times.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Holmes\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four biographies; \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Life of James Barry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hottentot Venus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEleanor Marx: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel, \u003c\/i\u003e all published by Bloomsbury. She has also edited collections of political writing, published as a journalist and worked as an academic, activist and literary programmer. \u003ci\u003eBetween Two Fires\u003c\/i\u003e is her second work for the stage. She co-commissioned \u003ci\u003eSixty Six Books: 21st Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible\u003c\/i\u003e (Oberon, 2011), with Josie Rourke and Chris Haydon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 48\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.1 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44608686162055,"sku":"9781350353848","price":25.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/LKkqZrLx4k9781350353848.webp?v=1778953817","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/between-two-fires-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}