Proletarian pilgrimage : an autobiography
Paton, John, 1886-19761935
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The 1935 autobiography of John Paton (1886-1976), an Aberdeen born socialist activist who was involved with the Independent Labour Party. He later served as a member of parliament from 1945 to 1964.
Main title:
Proletarian pilgrimage : an autobiography / John Paton.
Author:
Paton, John, 1886-1976, author
Imprint:
London : George Routledge & Sons, 1935.
Collation:
xiii, 319 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Book dedicated to J. Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) "without who kindly insistence and advice this book would not have been written".
Contents:
Family portraits - - Tale of a grandfather - - Moulding a mind - - Printer's devil - - Growing pains - - Burnett's barbers - - "The movement" - - Fresh fields - - Blacklisted - - Beauty parlour - - Founding a family - - The Milky Way - - The academy - - The master man - - Snared - - Comrades in affliction - - An end and an beginning.
Local class:
F5 PAT920.1
Language:
English
BRN:
646949