Lily Tobias

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.

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