Gerald Gould (1885 – 1936) was an English writer, known as a journalist and reviewer, essayist and poet. He married Barbara Bodichon Ayrton (1888-1950), suffragette and after his death on the Labour National Executive and a Labour Party MP 1945-1950; she was daughter of the scientists William Edward Ayrton and Hertha Marks Ayrton. The artist Michael Ayrton (1921-1975) was their son. 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Suffragette with banner, Washington DC, 1918 The title of suffragette (also occasionally spelt suffraget) was given to members of the womens suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. ... The National Executive Committee or NEC is the chief administrative body of the Labour Party (UK). ... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the main democratic socialist[1] political party in the United Kingdom. ... William Edward Ayrton (14 September 1847 - 8 November 1908) was a British physicist. ... Attended Girton College at Cambridge University where she studied mathematics and passed the Mathematical Tripos in 1880. ... Michael Ayrton (1921-1975), was a British artist and writer, known as a painter, printmaker and sculptor, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. ...

He was brought up in Norwich, and studied at University College, London and Magdalen College, Oxford. He had a position at University College from 1906, and was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford from 1909 to 1916. He then worked as a journalist on the Daily Herald as one of Lansbury's Lambs — the group of idealistic young men helping with it after George Lansbury purchased it in 1913, and which included Douglas Cole, W. N. Ewer, Harold Laski, William Mellor and Francis Meynell. Shown within Norfolk Geography Status: City (1195) Government Region: East of England Administrative County: Norfolk Area: - Total Ranked 322nd 39. ... The Front Quad University College London, commonly known as UCL, is one of the colleges that make up the University of London. ... College name Magdalen College Collegium Beatae Mariae Magdalenae Named after Mary Magdalene Established 1458 Sister College Magdalene College President Professor David Clary FRS JCR President Iain Anstess Undergraduates 395 MCR President Kader Allouni Graduates 230 Homepage Boatclub Magdalen College (pronounced ) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of... College name The House of Scholars of Merton Named after Walter de Merton Established 1264 Sister College Peterhouse Warden Prof. ... The Daily Herald was a London newspaper. ... The Right Honourable George Lansbury (February 21, 1859 – May 7, 1940) was a British Labour politician, socialist, Christian pacifist, and newspaper editor. ... George Douglas Howard Cole (September 25, 1889 - January 14, 1959) was an English journalist and economist, closely associated with the development of Fabianism. ... William Norman Ewer (1885 - 1976) was a British journalist, remembered mostly now for a few lines of verse. ... Harold Joseph Laski (June 30, 1893, Manchester, England - March 24, 1950, London, England) was an English political scientist, economist, author, and lecturer, and served as the 1945-1946 chairman of the Labour Party. ... William Mellor (1888-1942) was a leftwing UK journalist. ... Francis Meynell (1891-1975) was the poet and printer at the Nonesuch Press. ...

In the 1920s he was fiction editor on The Observer, and was also (not coincidentally) made chief reader for Victor Gollancz Ltd., where he was involved in the early publication history of George Orwell. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Victor Gollancz Ltd was a British book publisher founded by Victor Gollancz in 1927; its most notable authors were George Orwell and Ford Madox Ford. ... It has been suggested that Eileen OShaughnessy be merged into this article or section. ...

His poem Wander-thirst is often quoted.

Works

• Lyrics (1906)
• On the Nature of Lyric (1909)
• My Lady's Book (1913)
• Poems (1914)
• Monogamy (1918) poems
• The Happy Tree and Other Poems (1919)
• The Journey:Odes and Sonnets (1920)
• Lady Adela (1920)
• The Coming Revolution in Great Britain (1920)
• The English Novel of Today (1924)
• The Return to the Cabbage and Other Essays and Sketches (1926)
• Beauty the Pilgrim (1927) poems
• Collected Poems (1929)
• Democritus or the Future of Laughter (1929)
• The Musical Glasses (1929) essays
• All About Women: Essays and Parodies (1931)
• Isabel (1932) novel
• Refuge From Nightmare (1933)