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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 |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Kavan | |
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 |
Textual Features | Doris Lessing | This book deals (often satirically) with Martha's experience as a member of a rather amateurish Communist Party
group in Africa during the Second World War. The wave of local political consciousness is brief, brought about... |
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... |
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... |
Violence | Marie Belloc Lowndes | But her temporary home in Shropshire, though a bomb fell nearby, felt safer than her house in the London suburbs, which was encircled by very serious bombings, Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus. 203 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Cecily Mackworth | Czechoslovakia Fights Back, printed on flimsy wartime economy paper, is a moving document. Its opening sentence runs: Czechoslovakia was the first non-German country to experience a Nazi occupation and has thus had longer than... |
Textual Production | Gwen Moffat | GM
issued through her usual publisher, Hodder and Stoughton
, Two Star Red. A Book about R.A.F.
Mountain Rescue. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3239 (26 March 1964): 251 |
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... |
Residence | E. Nesbit | |
Textual Features | Winsome Pinnock | WP
used patois for the first time in A Hero's Welcome, and found it liberating. Stephenson, Heidi, and Natasha Langridge. Rage and Reason: Women Playwrights on Playwriting. Methuen Drama. |
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 |
Travel | Freya Stark | FS
began another journey through Persia, this time to map the ancient settlement of Shabwa. She was unsuccessful at this because of an angina attack, but her dramatic rescue by the Royal Air Force |
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