Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House.
305-15
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Occupation | Freya Stark | In her capacity as a member of the Ministry of Information
, FS
made a lecture tour of the United States, speaking primarily on Britain's stance on Jewish immigration to Palestine. Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House. 305-15 |
Occupation | Freya Stark | FS
's Brotherhood of Freedom
arose from her plan to construct a cell-based network of British sympathizers in the Middle East. Supported by General Wavell
, who became a friend, FS
was recruited by... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Kate O'Brien | KOB
wrote this novel as a worker for the Ministry of Information
early in the Second World War, during which time she was renting accommodation in or near Oxford and enjoying the stimulation of... |
Material Conditions of Writing | E. M. Delafield | This thirty-page pamphlet appeared while EMD
was working for the Ministry of Information
. Critic Maurice McCullen
thinks it likely that the Ministry commissioned it as war propaganda to help secure the support of British... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Freya Stark | A Pamphlet in Defence of Propaganda by FS
was published at about the time of her retirement from the Ministry of Information
. Izzard, Molly. Freya Stark: A Biography. Hodder and Stoughton. 39 |
Friends, Associates | Phyllis Bentley | At the Ministry of InformationPB
worked with politician and writer Mary Agnes Hamilton
, who admired Bentley's superb warmth and strength of feeling, but felt them to be a drawback for this kind of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Jenkins | In old age EJ
said the love of her life had been a handsome, charismatic, married surgeon, Sir Eardley Holland
. She had been introduced to him by one of his daughters, who was a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rose Macaulay | She met him while working at the Ministry of Information
. They fell in love, although Gerald was married. He was a prolific novelist; RM
's favourite among his works was his last, The Holy... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rumer Godden | RG
's husband, James Haynes-Dixon
, retired from his job at the Central Office of Information
. Biographer Anne Chisholm
dates his retirement 1960, but RG
herself is quite definite. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan. 219 |
Employer | P. L. Travers | On the outbreak of the Second World War, PLT
went to work for a time for the British Ministry of Information
. House, Adrian. “Ever Afterwards”. A Lively Oracle: A Centennial Celebration of P.L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins, edited by Ellen Dooling Draper and Jenny Koralek, Published for the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation by Larson Publications, pp. 25-28. 26 |
Employer | Phyllis Bentley | PB
moved to London to work as a researcher in the American Division of the Ministry of Information
: she lodged at the Senate House of London University, which had been requisitioned during the war. Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz. 228 |
Employer | Elizabeth Jenkins | EJ
's war work was done in the Civil Service
, first for the Assistance Board
which helped in the settlement of Jewish refugees and then with compensation payments to those whose property had been... |
Employer | Phyllis Bottome | PB
accepted a position writing for the Ministry of Information
under the supervision of John Buchan (later Lord Tweedsmuir)
. There is some confusion between sources about dates of PB
's activities in the years... |
Employer | Rose Macaulay | A year after taking this job she was transferred from the War Office
to the Ministry of Information
, where she worked as a wartime bureaucrat. Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins. 89 Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray. 160-1 |
Employer | Elizabeth Bowen | She worked, from 1940, for the Ministry of Information
, for which she reported on the situation in the neutral country of Ireland and on Irish attitudes to the war. Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. 202-4 |
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