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Publishing | Freya Stark | |
Occupation | Freya Stark | Back in Baghdad in October 1931, FS
began to increase her writing pace. The Royal Air Force
printed her maps, and she published in the Geographical Journal. She also disguised herself in an 'abba... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
co-wrote a comedy called Sweet Liberty with her brother Bernard Jaeger
, who was in the RAF
at the time. Jaeger, Muriel. Shepherd’s Trade. Arthur H. Stockwell. 82 Catalogue of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3. Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures. Library of Congress. 18 (1945) 1: 180 |
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... |
Literary responses | G. B. Stern | |
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 |
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 | Gwen Moffat | He had been diverted from physical training instruction in the RAF
in 1951, following a horrific plane crash in Scotland, into the field of mountain rescue. From early 1952 he headed the RAF mountain rescue... |
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 |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Kavan | |
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 |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Andrea Levy | AL
's father, Winston Levy
, was one of those pioneers from the Caribbean (Jamaica) who came to Britain on the Empire Windrush in 1948. He kept a souvenir postcard he bought on the ship... |
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