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The Living Lotus
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222 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 1956
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Ethel Mannin
120 books44 followersEthel Mannin (1900-84) was a prolific Anglo-Irish left wing anarchist pacifist author. She was quite close to W.B.Yeats at one time.
Ethel Edith Mannin (October 6, 1900 – 1984) was a popular British novelist and travel writer. She was born in London into a family with an Irish background.
Her writing career began in copy-writing and journalism. She became a prolific author, and also politically and socially concerned. She supported the Labour Party but became disillusioned in the 1930s. A visit in 1936 to the USSR left her unfavourable to communism. According to R. F. Foster (W. B. Yeats: A Life II p.512) 'She was a member of the Independent Labour Party, and her ideology in the 1930s tended to anarcho-syndicalism rather than hardline Communism, but she was emphatically and vociferously left-wing'. She came to support anarchism, and wrote about the Russian-born, American anarchist Emma Goldman, a colleague in the Solidaridad Internacional Antifascista at the time of the Spanish Civil War.
She married twice: in 1919, a short-lived relationship from which she gained one daughter, and in 1938 to Reginald Reynolds, a Quaker and go-between in India between Mahatma Gandhi and the British authorities. In 1934-5 she was in an intense but problematic intellectual, emotional and physical relationship with W. B. Yeats, who was on the rebound from Margot Ruddock and about to fall for Dorothy Wellesley (a detailed account is in R. F. Foster's life of Yeats, concluding mainly that her emotional engagement was much less than his). She also had a well-publicised affair with Bertrand Russell.
Source: Wikipedia.
Ethel Edith Mannin (October 6, 1900 – 1984) was a popular British novelist and travel writer. She was born in London into a family with an Irish background.
Her writing career began in copy-writing and journalism. She became a prolific author, and also politically and socially concerned. She supported the Labour Party but became disillusioned in the 1930s. A visit in 1936 to the USSR left her unfavourable to communism. According to R. F. Foster (W. B. Yeats: A Life II p.512) 'She was a member of the Independent Labour Party, and her ideology in the 1930s tended to anarcho-syndicalism rather than hardline Communism, but she was emphatically and vociferously left-wing'. She came to support anarchism, and wrote about the Russian-born, American anarchist Emma Goldman, a colleague in the Solidaridad Internacional Antifascista at the time of the Spanish Civil War.
She married twice: in 1919, a short-lived relationship from which she gained one daughter, and in 1938 to Reginald Reynolds, a Quaker and go-between in India between Mahatma Gandhi and the British authorities. In 1934-5 she was in an intense but problematic intellectual, emotional and physical relationship with W. B. Yeats, who was on the rebound from Margot Ruddock and about to fall for Dorothy Wellesley (a detailed account is in R. F. Foster's life of Yeats, concluding mainly that her emotional engagement was much less than his). She also had a well-publicised affair with Bertrand Russell.
Source: Wikipedia.
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September 1, 2016
The Living Lotus
Ethel Mannin, 1956
I go for refuge to the lord Buddha.
— from the Ti-sarana, The Threefold Refuge
"There was a time when Christopher Finching had shared his English wife's view that it was deplorable that a middle-aged Englishman should marry these very young Burmese girls-"
This is the story of his daughter, known to him as Jenny and to her Burmese mother as Mālā.
The story follows Jenny from her childhood in Burma before The Japanese Invasion to her life in England with her father.
I am surprised that there are not other reviews of this book even though it was published in 1956. It is a good story with well developed characters, sense of time and place definitely worth the read.
Ethel Mannin, 1956
I go for refuge to the lord Buddha.
— from the Ti-sarana, The Threefold Refuge
"There was a time when Christopher Finching had shared his English wife's view that it was deplorable that a middle-aged Englishman should marry these very young Burmese girls-"
This is the story of his daughter, known to him as Jenny and to her Burmese mother as Mālā.
The story follows Jenny from her childhood in Burma before The Japanese Invasion to her life in England with her father.
I am surprised that there are not other reviews of this book even though it was published in 1956. It is a good story with well developed characters, sense of time and place definitely worth the read.
January 24, 2021
So happy I took the time to read this old book that has been part of my living room "decor" for many years. Beautiful storyline. Particularly interesting to me because it was written in the 1950's; based in Far East and London during the 1940's. Burma (Myanmar) and India were under British control. My, how things have changed. 1/21
May 18, 2021
I enjoyed the story. It was one of the books that I got from my mom. I had some difficulties with it as Christopher was lied to about his daughter being dead....then he lied to get her back to England. In the end, it would appear she got her happy ending.
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