Nazis

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Textual Production Storm Jameson
SJ published another World War II novel, Cloudless May, referring to that month in 1940 which ushered in the invasion and occupation of France by NaziGermany.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research.
36: 71
Textual Production Edna St Vincent Millay
ESVM 's last work in a theatrical medium was her indignant radio play in verse about the Nazi killings and deportations at Lidice in Czechoslovakia, which was broadcast throughout the United States in later 1942.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
xiii
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
AB published her eighth novel, Latecomers, a story of English life whose true theme is the central characters' early experience as child refugees from the Nazis .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
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
CM 's slim volume Czechoslovakia Fights Back was published, one of a series entitled Europe under the Nazis, covering countries from Norway to Yugoslavia.
Bowker, Gordon. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. The Independent.
Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited.
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
This final novel, remarkable as an early treatment of the impact of radiation on human life and of the rise of Nazism in Germany, differs from MC 's earlier ones in being pessimistic about...
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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