ABSTRACT
Anglo-Catholic, with ‘malade imaginaire’. One elder sister. Education: Expensive but poor. Pre-war: Considered entering the Catholic Church as a young woman.
No early background of political involvement. Joined the Communist Party around 1935, was a founder member of a writers and readers group of the Left Book Club and worked in the Peace Movement. Her relationship with Sylvia Townsend Warner dated from 1930 onwards.
