Heald, Tim. A Life of Love: The Life of Barbara Cartland. Sinclair-Stevenson.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Barbara Cartland | BC
became an Honorary Junior Commander with the Auxiliary Territorial Service
(ATS
or women's army). Till the end of the war she also served as Chief Lady Welfare Officer in her home county of Bedfordshire. Heald, Tim. A Life of Love: The Life of Barbara Cartland. Sinclair-Stevenson. 112 Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 74 |
Textual Features | Rosita Forbes | Here RF
deals with her later travels—between 1935 and 1945—and her wartime lecturing career. She opens by very briefly conjuring her own exotically mixed heritage. A long and entertaining catalogue of places visited, adventures undergone... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Pamela Frankau | Her next erotic involvement after Humbert Wolfe was with a woman, a fellow officer in the ATS
and a Roman Catholic. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Pamela Frankau | During the Second World War, PF
first worked with the Ministry of Food
, then joined the ATS
in February 1942 and rose from private to major, having trained at the Officer Cadet Training Unit |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. M. Hull | EMH
had one child: a daughter, whom she and her husband named Cecil W. Hull
—supposedly because they had wanted a son, though Cecil had been not uncommon as a girl's name. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Employer | Gwen Moffat | Having left school during the second world war, Gwen Goddard worked briefly in a newspaper office, then joined the Women's Land Army
. This work, however, did not appeal to her. After eighteen months she... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Gwen Moffat | This book describes life in the women's army
and GM
's early, rackety non-army experiences, like milking cows and steering a sailing ship as the only sober member of the crew. Most vivid of all... |
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