Royal Air Force

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Ridler
AR and her husband had two daughters and two sons, and in due course six or more grandchildren and the same number of great-grandchildren.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp.
6
Their daughter Jane was born on the snowy night of...
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Kavan
AK 's son , a member of the RAF since the beginning of the war, was reported missing in action.
Callard, David. The Case of Anna Kavan. Peter Owen.
77
Family and Intimate relationships Diana Athill
From the ages of nine to fifteen DA was chastely in love with a boy of her own age, kind, gentle, brave, honest and reliable: the most rational love of my life.
Athill, Diana. Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill. Granta.
194-5
After that...
Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Laurence
Margaret Wemyss , a recent graduate, married Jack Laurence , a fellow-student whose subject was engineering. He was also a war veteran, having been a mechanic with the RAF .
Stovel, Nora Foster. Divining Margaret Laurence. A Study of Her Complete Writings. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
53
Laurence, Margaret. Dance on the Earth: A Memoir. McClelland and Stewart.
127
King, James. The Life of Margaret Laurence. Alfred A. Knopf.
64
Cultural formation H. D.
H. D. first met, after an eighteen-month correspondence, with Hugh, Lord Dowding , who had headed the RAF 's Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and was now an active spiritualist and theosophist.
Guest, Barbara. Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World. Collins.
262
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Dowding
Cultural formation H. D.
H. D. held seances during which believed that she had been given messages by dead RAF airmen warning of an imminent Third World War.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
45
Friedman, Susan Stanford. “’Remembering Shakespeare Always, But Remembering Him Differently’: H.D.’s By Avon River”. Sagetrieb, Vol.
2
, No. 2, pp. 45-70.
52-3
Characters Andrea Levy
The central events of the novel take place in postwar London over a few weeks during 1948, but those events are shaped by the separate experiences of the central characters before that time. The voices...
Characters Karen Gershon
This is a book about Inge's loves: her lost, buried love for her parents, her all-consuming love for her brother (to whom she feels deeply, inherently inferior), her love for baby Georgie (who, after they...

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