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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Rumer Godden | While living in Highgate RG
took to organizing readings: at Foyles
bookshop, promoting young poets; at Kenwood House; and for the Arts Council
, where she spent two years on the Poetry Panel... |
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 |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | The British Ministry of Information
issued, as one of a series published in French for wartime propaganda purposes, a booklet by MAH
entitled La Démocratie anglaise en guerre. University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/. |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information
once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations. Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 524 |
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... |
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... |
Travel | F. Tennyson Jesse | FTJ
was sent to France by England's Ministry of Information
to write about the Women's Army. Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch. 84 |
Publishing | F. Tennyson Jesse | FTJ
published with Macmillan
an important work of history and cultural commentary: The Story of Burma. It was adopted by the Ministry of Information
for educational use. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 77 Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch. 229 |
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 |
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... |
Employer | Kate O'Brien | During the early years of the war, KOB
worked for the Ministry of Information
. |
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... |
Employer | Dora Russell | DR
worked first in the Reference Division, then the Soviet Relations Department, of the Ministry of Information
(renamed the Central Office of Information
after World War Two). Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree 3 : Challenge to the Cold War. Virago. 3: x, 4 |
Occupation | Freya Stark | As an advisor on Arabic cultures, FS
began work on the outbreak of war with the Publicity Section of the Ministry of Information
. Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House. 241, 261 |
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 |
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