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(31 October 1942):
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Cecily Mackworth | Czechoslovakia Fights Back, printed on flimsy wartime economy paper, is a moving document. Its opening sentence runs: Czechoslovakia was the first non-German country to experience a Nazi occupation and has thus had longer than... |
Literary Setting | Margery Lawrence | |
Characters | Marghanita Laski | In France Pierre takes him to meet a curé and the curé's housekeeper, Madame Quilleboeuf, who during the war had smuggled to safety the children of people picked up by the Gestapo
, hiding each... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Philip Larkin | PL
's father, Sydney Larkin
, was treasurer of the city of Coventry at the time of Philip's birth. He was an important influence on his son's development. In politics he moved steadily to the... |
Cultural formation | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | SJ
published the novel Then We Shall Hear Singing: A Fantasy in C Major, a dystopian yet optimistic fiction set in a post-war, NaziCzechoslovakia. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (31 October 1942): Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research. 36: 71 |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | |
politics | Storm Jameson | In 1935 SJ
's thoughts were turning even more sharply toward the fearful certainty of another war: in her autobiography she describes her awareness of this certainty flicker[ing] continuously, just below the horizon, a lightning... |
Literary responses | Storm Jameson | This text delivered a final blow to SJ
's long and close friendship with Vera Brittain
(who had dedicated her political England's Hour to Jameson only that February). Not only did Brittain remain a staunch... |
politics | Violet Hunt | VH
's biographer Barbara Belford
notes that at the end of her life, Hunt took little interest in current affairs, including the threat of Nazism
. Instead, she was consumed with plans for her literary... |
Textual Production | Cicely Hamilton | Between 1931 and 1939, CH
published a series of travel books, which includes works on France, 1933, Russia, 1934, Austria, 1935, Ireland, 1936, Scotland, 1937, England, 1938, and Sweden... |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | In 1929 and again in 1930 she was a member of the British Delegation to the League of Nations
Assembly in Geneva (one of two women delegates sent by Britain), where her most exciting assignment... |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | |
Travel | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Like Germany and North America, Austria became a regular destination and she made a number of ongoing friendships there. She visited in 1928, 1934 (when the shadow of Nazism
was already perceptible), 1936, and in... |
Travel | Mary Agnes Hamilton | This was a step towards remedying what she terms her long neglect of France. She was back there again several times in 1939. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 193-4, 208, 210 |
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