Athill, Diana. Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill. Granta.
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Literary Setting | Margery Allingham | In this book she both re-introduced Albert Campion to his many fans, and tried to picture the coming post-war England. The cast of upper-middle-class characters are transformed by their entry into war service in... |
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 |
Textual Features | Eva Mary Bell | Back at home in Cheltenham, Mary finds the stagnation was worse than anything that I had pictured. Bell, Eva Mary. A Servant When He Reigneth. Hodder and Stoughton. 16 |
Residence | Lucy Boston | After her return to England, LB
bought herself a country home: the manor house at Hemingford Grey in Huntingdonshire, Rose, Jasper. Lucy Boston. Bodley Head. 19 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Phyllis Bottome | The book describes the effects of bombing: effects on the cities of London and Liverpool, the Army
, Navy
, and Air Force
, the Women's Auxiliary Services
, and the lives of ordinary... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Drabble | MD
's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble
, also attended Cambridge
, and served in the RAF
during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour
candidate for the Tory seat... |
Textual Features | Helen Dunmore | The story is set in the East Riding of Yorkshire, where a young couple, Isabel and Philip Carey, are living in the harsh winter and austerity conditions of 1952, coping with the newness of... |
Wealth and Poverty | Ruth Fainlight | Sillitoe had been invalided out of the RAF
with tuberculosis and had a small disability pension, but still when the young couple left England they had to borrow money for the journey south and the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ruth Fainlight | RF
married the man with whom she had been living for years, Alan Sillitoe
(former RAF
radio operator, now a suddenly successful novelist), at Marylebone Town Hall in London. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Evans-Bush, Katy. “The Poet Realized. An Interview with Ruth Fainlight”. Contemporary Poetry Review. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alison Fell | Alison's father, Andrew Fell, was an engine mechanic in peace-time and an airman in the RAF
during the Second World War, when Alison was born. He bombed Hamburg and Dresden and D Day France, and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosita Forbes | The opening pages of her second book of memoirs give a sketch of her brother John, farming under dreadful wartime difficulty in Kent, the family estate having been requisitioned for the RAF
. Forbes, Rosita. Appointment with Destiny. Cassell. 10 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maggie Gee | Her father, Victor Valentine Gee
, was dominant in the household. Gee, Maggie. How May I Speak in My Own Voice? Language and the Forbidden. Birkbeck College. 8 Gee, Maggie. “Serious Fun”. Mslexia, No. 59, pp. 12-13. 12 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Nadine Gordimer | As a teenager she socialized with trainee British pilots at a Royal Air Force
base near Johannesburg. Carroll, Rory. “Mining for Nadine Gordimer”. The Globe and Mail, p. R4. R4 |
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 |
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