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Interesting article about Ethel Mannin and her novel Comrade O Comrade. Forgotten today, Mannin was famous enough in her time: this book of hers skewers the pretensions of London parlour pinks by contrasting them with a horny handed Irish son of toil.
Comrade O Comrade: A Forgotten Satire of the British and Irish Left
Read this novel a couple of years of ago. Sadly, it's not that good. I write sadly because I paid over the odds for a copy of it, AND because I got really excited about it when I first read about it. There are a couple of novels/novellas from the same period which are far funnier at skewering the pretensions of the left: Grey Lynn's The Return of Karl Marx (Marx 'wakes up' in wartime London, and decides to attend a few political meetings held in his name) and Marghanita Laski's Love On The Supertax.