Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
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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 |
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... |
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 | 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 | Anna Kavan | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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. |
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