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Occupation | Evelyn Underhill | However, her renunciation of war did not prevent her from undertaking any humanitarian effort related to war. Biographer Christopher Armstrong
notes that in the years leading up to the war, both EU
and her husband... |
Occupation | May Cannan | |
Occupation | Dorothy Whipple | |
Occupation | Agatha Christie | |
Occupation | Monica Dickens | Quite early in 1940 (after a spell as a writer and another collecting scrap iron for armaments) MD
joined the Red Cross
as a VAD (that is, a Voluntary Aid Detachment
volunteer nurse), then became... |
Occupation | Cecily Mackworth | In May 1940 Paris began to fill up with Belgian refugees (who at the end of the month, when Belgium capitulated, became suddenly official enemies of Britain). CM
began working (I don't quite remember... |
Material Conditions of Writing | E. M. Forster | EMF
published Alexandria: A History and A Guide, which drew on his work in that city with the Wounded and Missing Bureau of the Red Cross
during the First World War. Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. 216 Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 247 Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of E. M. Forster. Clarendon. 27 |
Leisure and Society | Lady Margaret Sackville | Here, as in Edinburgh, she entered energetically into local literary life. She was the first president (for two terms) of the North Gloucestershire (Cheltenham) Centre of Poetry
, and during the second world war... |
Employer | Enid Bagnold | |
Employer | Gertrude Bell | |
Employer | Amabel Williams-Ellis |
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