My Life with Nye

Frit edition, first impression.  278pp, with several sections of black and white plate illustrations.  Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth a little tired, gently rounded at spine tips.  Upper text block edge a little dust darkened.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original glossy dust wrapper, price clipped, shelf worn, faded over spine and a little bumped on extreme edges.  

Jennie Lee, later Baroness Lee of Asheridge, was a Scottish politician becoming the youngest female member of the House of Commons upon her election for the North Lanarkshire constituency in 1929; and represented the Cannock constituency from 1945 to 1970. A left wing campaigner, often in conflict with the Labour Party leadership, and, as Arts Minister strongly influential in the establishment of the Open University and the Arts Council.  This volume however focusses on her husband, Aneurin Bevan, their marriage, political differences and life together: Bevan was a Welsh Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament for Ebbw Vale from 1929, and spearhead of the creation of the National Health Service and the wider British Welfare State.