Reginald Reynolds

Reginald Reynolds
Reginald Reynolds c. 1930
Born
Reginald Arthur Reynolds

1905 (1905)
Died (aged 53)
Education
Occupations
  • Writer
  • Campaigner
Movement
Spouse
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(m. 1938)​

Reginald Arthur Reynolds (1905 – 16 December 1958) was a British left-wing writer, poet, a Quaker and an anti-colonial activist who collaborated with M.K. Gandhi and Horace Alexander.

He was from a Quaker background, the son of Bryant Reynolds of Clark, Morland & Co. He was General Secretary of the No More War Movement from 1933 to 1937.

He was perhaps best known as a critic of British imperialism in India, and for his 1937 work The White Sahibs in India. For many years he was also New Statesman's weekly satirical poet.

He married the left wing novelist Ethel Mannin in 1938.

He was a conscientious objector during the Second World War, when he worked in Air Raid Precautions and in a mobile hospital unit. In the 1950s, he traveled through East and Central Africa and wrote of his experiences.

Works

Notes

  1. ↑ "Reginald Reynolds". Peace News. No. 1174. 26 December 1958. p. 5. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 Thomas, Donald B.; Nugent, P. J. (2010). "Walter Martin, "Friends Visit Jomo Kenyatta at Maralal"". Quaker History. 99 (1): 45. ISSN 0033-5053 – via JSTOR.
  3. ↑ "Interesting Engagement". Hertfordshire Express. 26 January 1929. p. 5.
  4. ↑ "Mannin, Ethel" in Todd, Janet M.(ed.) British Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide.Continuum, 1989 (pg. 441).
  5. ↑ Kennedy, Thomas C. (1994). "Review of Reg and Ethel: Reginald Reynolds (1905-1958): His Life and Work and His Marriage to Ethel Mannin (1900-1984)". Quaker History. 83 (1): 55. ISSN 0033-5053.

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