Lassner, Phyllis. British Women Writiers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own. St Martin’s Press.
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Textual Features | Phyllis Bottome | In this book, set largely in an English village, PB
rearticulates her concerns about the social situation of Jews in Europe and Britain. Lassner, Phyllis. British Women Writiers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own. St Martin’s Press. 228 |
Residence | Cecily Mackworth | |
Residence | Violet Trefusis | Having fled from Paris, VT
very reluctantly returned with her mother
to safety in England from now Nazi
-occupied France on a Royal Navy
troop ship. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo. 271-2 |
Residence | Violet Trefusis | According to her later story (which took two hours to tell and made her weep in the telling), she fled from Paris when the Nazis
overran France, in a small car with an aristocratic friend... |
Reception | Henry Handel Richardson | The Times Literary Supplement said HHR
had been scrupulous with the facts, had exercised the novelist's true function of revealing character by uncovering the secret places of the heart, and had revealed Cosima as the... |
Reception | Leonora Carrington | André Breton
was an early admirer of the story and included The Debutante in Anthology of Black Humour, an edited collection first published in 1939 but suppressed until 1945 because the Nazi
-compliant Vichy... |
Author summary | Phyllis Bottome | PB
was a prolific novelist who published over fifty works in approximately sixty years. Her two best-known works, Private Worlds and The Mortal Storm, were made into popular American films. In addition to novels,... |
politics | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
's political activities included steady opposition to France's colonial war in Algeria, and lifelong support for socialism and feminism. Elaine Showalter
has written that SB
's feminist credentials stem from her writing, and... |
politics | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | During World War One GHS
became and remained a fully convinced pacifist, as did her husband. Years later, with Nazi
Germany re-arming, she reluctantly ceased to be a pacifist. She resigned, painfully, from Dick Sheppard |
politics | Barbara Pym | It appears that at this date BP
admired (as did so many German women of analogous background) the ritual, the pageantry, perhaps the swaggering masculinity connected with National Socialism
. Some of her English friends... |
politics | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | During Storm Jameson
's presidency of the English branch of PEN International
(which began early in 1938) the Schützes lent Glebe House for a two-day sale raising funds for refugees from the Nazis
. GHS |
politics | Samuel Beckett | |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
, a strong anti-fascist, chaired a meeting of women's groups organized by the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship
, to discuss the declining rights of German women under Nazism
. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 134 |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | In the same month that the House of Commons
was officially informed of the Nazi
holocaust of Jews and other minorities, ER
began to pressure the government for a formal debate on the catastrophe. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 135 |
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