ABSTRACT
Pre-war: Worked as a teacher in Cambridge. She married Will Manning around 1913 or 1914. Became a member firstly of the Independent Labour Party, then the Labour Party. Between 1929 and 1931 she was the Labour MP for Islington East. She was also president of the National Union of Teachers and Joint Secretary of the Co-ordinating Committee Against War and Fascism. In 1934, she went to Spain as part of a delegation to investigate the suppression of the Asturian miners’ uprising, publishing a book, What I Saw In Spain in the following year.
