ABSTRACT
The second aspect of Le Sueur's work, her working class feminism, is the focal point both of her collection compiled by the Feminist Press in 1980 and of the recently recirculating novel written in the thirties, The Girl, published in 1978 by former Daily World editor John Crawford through his West End Press, which has in recent times consistently published Le Sueur's work. Both Ripening, the Feminist Press edition of Le Sueur's short pieces, primarily from the thirties, and The Girl indicate Le Sueur's concern with the
place of women in the world at large and in the radical movement in particular. Both allow us to consider what she herself has discussed as her organicism, a view of women that relates birth-giving, nurturing and the lifegiving forces of organic nature in a way that Le Sueur sees as anti-bourgeois and particularly feminine.
