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elementary state school from 1908 to 1916, being a pupil teacher from 1901. By 1911, Newbold was a school teacher, and herself a boarder with George and Marion
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small, very thin and pale and not unlike the ILP leader James Maxton. Like so many communists I was to meet then and later she was totally convinced and dogmatic and willing to make any sacrifice for the cause. I liked
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