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November 1937. Kitty arrived in London in mid-October to wait for him. In December, once he had left hospital, the couple set up home together in London, leading to Wintringham's
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on suspicion of being a spy, and expelled from the country. Wintringham was shot in the leg the following month, and she was allowed back into Spain to help nurse him. However, the CPGB ordered
Wintringham to stop associating with Bowler, and in July she was again expelled from Spain, on this
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Kitty worked as a journalist in the UK, but as Tom's writing became more demanding, she increasingly took on organisational work for him, including ghost writing, or un-credited co-authorship of some of his 1940 works. This included the organisation of the course for
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on his history of the
Spanish Civil war, Hugh Ford on his study of the poetry of that war, and Stewart Hall and Anthony Smith on their studies of mid-century political journalism, allowing access to these papers as a resource. She committed suicide in 1966.
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