"one completely rational person she had ever met" and stated her "opposition to capital punishment, orthodox education and blood sports". Mannin's 1944 book Bread and Roses: A Utopian Survey and Blue-Print has been described by historian Robert Graham as setting forth "an ecological vision in opposition to the prevailing and destructive industrial organization of society". In 1954, Mannin was one of several signatories to a letter protesting against mass executions of Kenyans by the colonial government who had been "charged with offences less than murder". In her seventies, Mannin still described herself as an anti-monarchist "Republican" and a "Tolstoyan anarchist". She married twice: in 1919, a short-lived relationship from which she gained one daughter, Jean Porteous, a conscientious objector in WW2, for whom she gave evidence at a Tribunal; and in 1938 to Reginald Reynolds, a Quaker and go-between in India between Mahatma Gandhi and the British authorities. In 1934–35 she was in an intense but problematic intellectual, emotional and physical relationship with W. B. Yeats, who was on the rebound from Margot Ruddock and about to fall for Dorothy Wellesley (a detailed account is in R. F. Foster's life of Yeats, concluding mainly that her emotional engagement was much less than his). She also had a well-publicised affair with Bertrand Russell. Works Autobiographies Confessions and Impressions (1930) Privileged Spectator (1939) Connemara Journal (1947) Brief Voices (1959) Young in the Twenties: A Chapter of Autobiography (1971) Sunset over Dartmoor: A Final Chapter of Autobiography (1977) Other works Martha (1923) Hunger of the Sea (1924) Sounding Brass (1925) Three New Love Stories (1925) with Warwick Deeping and Gilbert Frankau Pilgrims (1927) Green Willows (1928) Crescendo, Being the Dark Odyssey of Gilbert Stroud (1929) Children of the Earth (1930) Song of the Bomber (1936) Ragged Banners (1931) Bruised Wings and Other Stories (1931) Common-sense and the Child (1931) Green Figs (1931) stories The Tinsel Eden and Other Stories (1931) All Experience (1932) Linda Shawn (1932) Love's Winnowing (1932) Venetian Blinds (1933) Dryad (1933) stories Men Are Unwise (1934) Some Adventures With A School (1934) with Margaret Johnston Cactus (1935) Forever Wandering (1935) The Falconer's Voice (1935) Forbidden Music (1935) South to Samarkand (1936) Spain and Us (with J. B. Priestley, Rebecca West, Stephen Spender, Francis Meynell, Louis Golding, T. F. Powys, J. Langdon-Davies, Catherine Carswell) (1936) The Pure Flame (1936) Sounding Brass (1937) Women Also Dream (1937) Common-Sense and the Adolescent (1937)