| 词条 | Frida Knight |
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Frida Knight (1910–1996) was an English Communist activist and author. LifeBorn Frideswide Frances Emma Stewart, and known as Frida, she was the daughter of Hugh Fraser Stewart (1863–1948) and his wife Jessie Graham Crum; her sister Caitin (Katherine) married George Derwent Thomson, and her brother Ludovic married Alice Mary Naish. She left school at 14 with a heart condition, and spent time in Italy.[1][2][3][4][5] A student of music and drama, Stewart went with one of her sisters to Germany in 1928, studying the violin, and then went to the Royal College of Music.[6] She spent time at the Manchester University Settlement and Hull University College.[7] In 1935 she visited the Soviet Union on a British Drama League trip.[8] Stewart then joined the Left Book Club and Communist Party of Great Britain, and formed local Spanish Aid committees on the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.[6][7] She drove an ambulance to Spain on behalf of the National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief.[9] In 1937 she was at a hospital in Murcia with Kathleen MacColgan and Eunice Chapman.[10] Arrested in France in 1940, after the German invasion, Stewart was in the Caserne Vauban (Besançon) and then the Vittel internment camp. She escaped in 1942, with Rosemary Say.[6][11] She then worked for the Free French in London.[12] In later life Frida Knight wrote, and campaigned for many causes.[6] Works
She translated The Lost Letter and Other Plays by Ion Luca Caragiale (1956).[18] FamilyShe married microbiologist Bert Cyril James Gabriel Knight in 1944 and had five children, of whom four survived infancy. The couple moved to Cambridge on Bert Knight's retirement and Knight remained there after being widowed in 1981.[1] Notes1. ^1 {{cite ODNB|id=51695|title=Knight, Bert Cyril James Gabriel|first=John R.|last=Postgate}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Knight, Frida}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0012%2FMS%20Add.7671|title=Janus: Hugh Fraser Stewart and family: Correspondence and Papers|publisher=University of Cambridge|accessdate=2015-06-04}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://dscalm.warwick.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Persons&dsqSearch=Code==%27DS%2FUK%2F1931%27&dsqCmd=Show.tcl|title=Warwick Library Modern Records Centre – Knight; Frideswide Frances Emma (Frida) (1910–1996); Author and communist|accessdate=2015-06-04}} 4. ^{{cite book|author=Martin Bernal|title=Geography of a Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CiwuS5CM2CEC&pg=PA150|date=July 2012|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|isbn=978-1-4653-6374-9|page=150}}{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=January 2018}} 5. ^{{cite ODNB|id=76998|title=Stewart, Alice Mary|first=Richard|last=Doll|authorlink=Richard Doll}} 6. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|author=Molly Andrews|title=Lifetimes of Commitment: Ageing, Politics, Psychology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZNOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA82|date=31 May 1991|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-0-521-42249-9|pages=82–4}} 7. ^1 {{cite book|author=Linda Palfreeman|title=Salud!: British Volunteers in the Republican Medical Service During the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d_P_TPI1EwwC&pg=PA259|date=1 January 2012|publisher=Sussex Academic Press|isbn=978-1-84519-519-9|page=259}} 8. ^{{cite book|author=Angela Jackson|title=British Women and the Spanish Civil War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HWuBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA36|date=2 September 2003|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-47107-2|pages=36}} 9. ^{{cite book|author=Angela Jackson|title='For Us It Was Heaven': The Passion, Grief and Fortitude of Patience Darton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gBXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA142|date=1 March 2012|publisher=Sussex Academic Press|isbn=978-1-78284-041-1|pages=142–}} 10. ^{{cite book|author=Angela Jackson|title=British Women and the Spanish Civil War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HWuBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA235|date=2 September 2003|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-47107-2|page=235}} 11. ^Frontstalag 142: The Internment Diary of an English Lady 12. ^{{cite book|author=Nicholas Shakespeare|title=Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GucBq_kBur4C&pg=PA279|date=7 November 2013|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-1-4481-5599-6|pages=279–}} 13. ^{{cite book|author=Frida Knight|title=University Rebel: the life of William Frend (1757–1841)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vje7AAAAIAAJ|date=4 March 1971|publisher=Gollancz}} 14. ^{{cite book|author=Frida Knight|title=Beethoven and the Age of Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I2QYAQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=International Publishers|isbn=978-0-7178-0394-1}} 15. ^{{cite book|author1=William Frend|author2=Richard Reynolds|author3=Mary C. Reynolds |author4=John Hammond |author5=Frida Knight|title=Letters to William Frend from the Reynolds family of Little Paxton and John Hammond of Fenstanton 1793–1814|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cOQ8AQAAIAAJ|date=31 August 1974|publisher=Cambridge Antiquarian Records Society|isbn=978-0-904323-00-9}} 16. ^{{cite book|author=Frida Knight|title=The French resistance, 1940 to 1944|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSJnAAAAMAAJ|date=13 November 1975|publisher=Lawrence and Wishart}} 17. ^{{cite book|author=Frida Knight|title=Cambridge Music: from the Middle Ages to modern times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yscXAQAAIAAJ|date=1 January 1980|publisher=Oleander Press|isbn=978-0-900891-51-9}} 18. ^{{cite book|author=Peter France|title=The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pmNoS2dndKsC&pg=PA216|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-924784-4|page=216}} 7 : 1910 births|1996 deaths|English writers|English translators|English communists|People from Cambridge|20th-century translators |
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