Bedford, Sybille. Quicksands. Counterpoint.
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Wealth and Poverty | Sybille Bedford | |
Textual Production | Sybille Bedford | About 1933, after the rejection of the first novel, Klaus Mann
generously accepted SB
's offer of a review essay on Aldous Huxley
's recent Beyond the Mexique Bay for his new review Die Sammlung... |
politics | Samuel Beckett | |
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... |
Textual Features | Simone de Beauvoir | This novel is about moral responsibility for those whom Christianity calls our neighbour, and about the possibility that violence can in certain circumstances be morally acceptable. Each of its two central characters, Jean Blomart and... |
Literary responses | Simone de Beauvoir | The one-hundredth anniversary of SB
's birth, though marked with book publications, a tribute DVD series, and a three-day international symposium, was a controversial occasion. Sharp criticism in the French press centred mostly the... |
Violence | Sylvia Beach | SB
was forced to close Shakespeare and Company
, her Paris bookshop, following threats of seizure by the Nazis
. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 404-5 |
Violence | Sylvia Beach | SB
was arrested by the Nazis
, along with other American women. She was interned for about seven months. Beach, Sylvia. “Inturned”. PMLA, edited by Keri Walsh and Keri Walsh, Vol. 124 , No. 3, pp. 939-46. 940 Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 406 Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace. 216 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Enid Bagnold | EB
's flirtations after Randall Neale
included Dr Harold Waller
, Count Albrecht Bernstorff
(a close friend who was probably killed by the Nazis
during the Second World War) and Donald Strathcona
. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 84, 112, 117, 120, 159 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Arendt | She later fell in love with her professor, Martin Heidegger
, who was passionately attracted by her beauty and by her depth of thinking. Kristeva, Julia. Hannah Arendt. Translator Guberman, Ross, Columbia University Press. 14 |
politics | Hannah Arendt | During her first marriage, HA
criticised the German women's movement for interesting itself in social, or women's issues without considering the broader political causes and consequences which made them of concern to men as well... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hannah Arendt | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hannah Arendt | Arendt puts forward several points which many readers found controversial or even unacceptable. As her sub-title makes clear, she does not present Eichmann as a monster, an exception, or a freakishly wicked specimen of the... |
Cultural formation | Hannah Arendt | |
Friends, Associates | Laurence Alma-Tadema | Her sister, Anna, travelled to occupied Paris later that year, to attempt to collect Laurence's possessions there, and was arrested by the Nazis
, but not held prisoner for long. She died on 5 July... |
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