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Textual Production | Storm Jameson | |
Textual Production | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
Textual Production | Isak Dinesen | ID
published in New York, as Pierre Andrézel, The Angelic Avengers, a short, allegorical novel written to relieve her feelings during the Nazi
occupation of Denmark. Stambaugh, Sara. The Witch and the Goddess in the Stories of Isak Dinesen. UMI Research Press. 35-6 Thurman, Judith. Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen. Penguin. 362 and n8 |
Textual Production | Jan Morris | JM
made another foray into fantasy with Our First Leader which satirically envisages a German victory in the second world war, with Machynlleth as the capital of a Nazi
Wales. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber. 178 |
Textual Production | Vera Brittain | VB
's literary output during and immediately after World War II was almost entirely taken up with statements of her pacifist convictions both her in non-fictional writing and lecturing and her last two novels. The... |
Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | Cecily Mackworth
made her name with her book I Came Out of France, a vivid first-person account of the fall of France to the Nazis
and its immediate effects on the civilian population. Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited. |
Textual Production | Anita Brookner | |
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... |
Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | |
Textual Production | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Another play about the theatre that she wrote, The Managing Director, brought her an overall bad experience. Its leading character was based on Fritzi Massary
, an Austrian operetta diva who had fled from... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mona Caird | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Stevie Smith | This highly unusual novel takes the form of a disconnected journal by a publisher's secretary named Pompey, an alienated but irrepressible member of the disregarded female work-force, who is clearly an alter-ego for SS
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caryl Churchill | The play presents no children, only nine adults sitting together. Words are to be assigned to one person or another at the director's choice. In the filmed version mounted online on the website of The... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ethel Mannin | In Berlin she mourns the end of Weimar Germany's promise of sexual freedom. She laments the passing of individuality and freedom, the assertion of a tyranny that has even the power to interfere in the... |
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