Edith Bone

Edith Bone (28 January 1889¹ – 14 February 1975), originally Edit Olga Hajós, was a medical professional, journalist and translator who later became a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Edith Bone (28 January 1889 – 14 February 1975), originally Edit Olga Hajós, was a medical professional, journalist and translator who later became a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. ==Early life== Bone was born in Hungary in 1889. She married Béla Balázs in 1913. After the First World War she joined the Bolshevik Party in Petrograd. In 1918, she began editing the English version of the Communist International magazine, and later became a courier for the parent organisation. She lived in Berlin, Germany from 1923 to 1933, leaving for Britain when the Nazis took over. She married Gerald Martin, a British translator, in February 1934. She was fluent in six languages. In July 1936, she and her friend and fellow communist, artist Felicia Browne, traveled to Spain to attend the international People's Olympiad, a protest event against the 1936 Olympics. However the event was cancelled due to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Browne would become the only British woman to play a combatant role, and one of the first of the British volunteers to die in the conflict, in August 1936. Bone remained in Spain, working as a doctor and as a journalist with Claud Cockburn, a correspondent for the Daily Worker. She was involved with the establishment of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) in Barcelona, Spain. She returned to Britain some time before 1937 and worked as a translator for the magazine Lilliput. She resigned briefly from the Communist movement before rejoining the British Communist Party in 1942. ==See also== Felicia Browne ==Further reading== Bone, Edith. Hét év magánzárka Budapest: 2007.

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