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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Theodora Benson | TB
published with Faber and FaberSweethearts and Wives, Their Part in War, a little book illustrated with photographs mostly from the Ministry of Information
, of women at war on the home front. |
Occupation | Theodora Benson | During the Second World War TB
worked for the Ministry of Information
, writing Speaker's Notes, material for public speeches explaining the war effort.Elizabeth Jenkins
, her assistant, said she was brilliant at this... |
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 |
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... |
Occupation | John Betjeman | JB
worked initially as a private secretary, prep school master, and journalist. During the Second World War he was an assistant in the Ministry of Information
and a British press attaché in Ireland, a... |
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... |
politics | Phyllis Bottome | With the support of British authorities, PB
used her lectures to promote her political views and to encourage Americans to support the Allies in the war against Nazi Germany. At the end of the tour... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Phyllis Bottome | Early in the book she describes her first diagnosis with a lung infection only weeks after her sister's death. She also discusses her life during the First World War, which included a job as a... |
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 |
Employer | Ann Bridge | Early in the second world war she worked at an indeterminate job with the Ministry of Information
, commissioning articles on the British war effort and placing them in US periodicals: the placing had to... |
Employer | E. M. Delafield | The Ministry of Information
sent EMD
on a mission to France. McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne. 89 |
Textual Production | E. M. Delafield | EMD
published a wartime propaganda pamphlet entitled People You Love, probably commissioned by the Ministry of Information
. McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne. 89-90 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. M. Delafield | EMD
defiantly maintains a light, satirical tone despite the gravity of the situation. She focuses deliberately on amusing characters and situations: evacuees who return to London because they cannot tolerate country life; a bureaucrat at... |
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... |
Employer | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
was employed by the Ministry of Information
to write propaganda articles (largely unidentified) for neutral newspapers. Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson. 86 Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate. 101 |
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Winter 1940-1: A film about London in the Blitz, entitled...
Writing climate item
Winter 1940-1
A film about London in the Blitz, entitled London Can Take It, played to audiences totalling around sixty million people in the USA.
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