Lily Tobias
Appearance
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Lily Tobias (1887-1984) was a writer and activist.
Born in Swansea, to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents, Lily grew up in Ystalyfera in the Swansea Valley.[1]
Tobias campaigned for women's suffrage, conscientious objectors, the rights of working people and a Jewish national home in Palestine.
The aunt of poet Dannie Abse and Labour MP Leo Abse, Tobias was known in her own period as a writer of note. She wrote four novels, a collection of short stories, and the first dramatization for stage of Daniel Deronda.
Publications
- My Mother's House (1931, reprinted by Honno Classics 2015)
- Eunice Fleet(1933, reprinted by Honno Classics 2004)s
References
- ^ "Award-winning university lecturer publishes new book examining life and troubled times of the author and political activist Lily Tobias". www.swansea.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-15.