Fame Is The Spur: Howard SpringSet against the struggle of the working classes and the suffragettes for equality from the England of the mid 19th century to the 1930s. John Hamer Shawcross is born into a poor but aspirational working class family in Manchester. Studious and hard working, he becomes a socialist activist, goes into politics and rises to becomes part of the privileged upper classes he began by opposing. As he looks back, he wonders if his successes brought him over to