Cedar Paul

Cedar Paul (born in 1880 in Hampstead , London as Gertrude Mary Davenport , died 18th March 1972 ) was a British opera singer and translator.

Life

Mary Davenport was a daughter of the composer Francis William Davenport (1847-1925) and granddaughter of the composer George Alexander Macfarren . She attended various boarding schools in England and abroad and received her musical training as an opera singer in Stuttgart and Dresden . Davenport sang great soprano roles as Cherubino (Mozart), Siébel and also Marguerite (Gounod), Elsa (Wagner), Elisabeth (Wagner) until the outbreak of the First World War. After the war she performed as a song singer.

Davenport was politically active in the Independent Labor Party between 1912 and 1919 and was secretary of the British Section of the Women's International Council of Socialist and Labor Organizations from 1917 to 1919. She married the socialist Eden Paul (1865–1944), and from 1915 the two translated a large number of political writings from German into English, but also from Italian, French and Russian. They translated the works of Stefan Zweig . From 1920 onwards, they became involved in the educational work of the Communist Party of Great Britain . The Pauls tried to avoid the term “ dictatorship of the proletariat ” with the new word “Ergatocracy” .

Paul last lived in Hindhead , Surrey .

Creative revolution, a study of communist ergatocracy (1920)

Fonts (selection)

with Eden Paul: Creative revolution, a study of communist ergatocracy . London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1920

literature

Paul, Cedar , in: Who was who: containing the biographies of those who died during the decade. 7. 1971/80 . London: Black, 1989 ISBN 0-7136-3227-5 , p. 611

Web links

Literature by and about Cedar Paul in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Cedar Paul in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Collection Level Description: Papers of Eden and Cedar Paul , at Bodleian Library

Individual evidence

^ Jean-Yves Brancy (ed.): Romain Rolland - Stefan Zweig. Correspondance 1920-1927 . Siegrun Barat in Romanian. Paris: Albin Michel, 2015, ISBN 978-2-226-31672-1 , fn. 60
^ Ian Bullock: Romancing the revolution: the myth of Soviet democracy and the British Left . Edmonton, AB: AU Press, 2011 ISBN 978-192-683-613-3 , p. 310

personal data
SURNAME	Paul, Cedar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Davenport, Gertrude Mary (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British translator
DATE OF BIRTH	1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hampstead (London)
DATE OF DEATH	March 18, 1972

[1] Jean-Yves Brancy (ed.): Romain Rolland - Stefan Zweig. Correspondance 1920-1927 . Siegrun Barat in Romanian. Paris: Albin Michel, 2015, ISBN 978-2-226-31672-1 , fn. 60

[2] Ian Bullock: Romancing the revolution: the myth of Soviet democracy and the British Left . Edmonton, AB: AU Press, 2011 ISBN 978-192-683-613-3 , p. 310