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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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politics | Bernice Rubens | |
Characters | Bernice Rubens | BR
's characters here have not sweetened in their advanced age. They cherish secrets from the past, or delight in outliving others less lucky, or operate an in-house blackmailing business, or commit gory suicide. The... |
Characters | Bernice Rubens | When asked to write his autobiography for publication, Dreyfus both fears and wishes to break his silence. He begins his story with his terribly ironical christening. His self-discovery runs parallel in the novel with the... |
politics | Maude Royden | |
Literary Setting | Michèle Roberts | This is the story of Thérèse and Léonie (cousins, or sisters, or twins, whose relationship is differently described as the story proceeds and their fathers are differently identified), as well as a story of life... |
Travel | Anne Ridler | Her memoir details her family holidays: six weeks in lodgings in summer and two at Easter, visiting Cornwall, St Davids in Wales, the Lake District, and France (the first time, to Brittany... |
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... |
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 | 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 |
Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
's committee raised three hundred thousand pounds to fund the children's transport. Having begun with Spanish refugees, she became over the next few years deeply involved in the cause of refugees from Czecholovakia... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | As the political climate moved increasingly towards war, ER
advocated League of Nations
sanctions against Mussolini
's Italy (with the threat of force), as well as a closer relationship between Britain and the USSR in... |
Textual Production | Eleanor Rathbone | During this year and the next she produced a number of reports on threatening international developments. In October that year she and other members of a committee of enquiry into breaches of international law in... |
Textual Production | Eleanor Rathbone | |
Travel | Barbara Pym | After visiting NaziGermany with the National Union of Students
in March 1934, BP
travelled with the same organization the following year to Budapest. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press. 8-9 Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press. 32-3 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Barbara Pym | She found several handsome young Germans attractive on her German visit, notably Nazi
party members Friedbert Glück
and Hanns Woischnick
. Since she destroyed the relevant pages of her diary, the facts about these flirtations... |
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