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Cedar Paul, ''née'' Gertrude Mary Davenport (1880 – 18 March 1972) was a singer, author, translator and journalist.〔''Who Was Who''〕 ==Biography== Gertrude Davenport came from a musical family: she was the granddaughter of the composer George Alexander Macfarren and the daughter of the composer Francis William Davenport (1847–1925).〔 She was educated at convent schools in Belgium, France, Italy and England, and studied music in Germany. She was a member of the Independent Labour Party from 1912 to 1919, and Secretary of the British Section of the Women's International Council of Socialist and Labour Organizations from 1917 to 1919.〔 She married Eden Paul, and from 1915 onwards was active - under the name of Cedar Paul - as a translator and writer in collaboration with her husband. The pair became members of the Communist Party of Great Britain,〔''The Labour Who's Who'', 1927〕 and Cedar served on the executive committee of the Plebs League in the 1920s.〔Chris Wrigley, ''A.J.P. Taylor: radical historian of Europe'', I. B. Tauris, 2006, p.37〕 Together with Lyster Jameson, the Pauls made "strenuous attempts () to develop psychology" as a component of working-class education in the Plebs League.〔J. McIlroy, 'Independent working-class education and trade union education and training', in R. Fieldhouse (ed.) ''A History of Modern British Adult Education'' (Leicester, 1996), pp.271-3〕 However, some working-class League members resented them: Cedar and Eden Paul were extraordinarily prolific translators in the interwar years, translating a range of socialist and psychotherapy works, as well as novels, particularly historical novels. They were the official translators for Stefan Zweig and Emil Ludwig, and their translations from German also included works by Karl Marx, Rudolf Hilferding, Karl Jaspers, Stefan Zweig and Heinrich von Treitschke). However they also translated work from French, Italian (including a work by Robert Michels) and Russian (including works by Joseph Stalin, and Georgi Plekhanov, and Mikhail Lermontov's ''A Hero of Our Time''). After Eden Paul's death in 1944, Cedar Paul published only a small number of translations under her own name. A. J. P. Taylor, who had read the Pauls' work as a teenager, observed that the pair were no longer much remembered fifty years later.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cedar Paul」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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