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Occupation | Nancy Cunard | NC
worked as a translator in London for the Free French
, the French government-in-exile during the rule of Marshall Pétain
's Nazi
-compliant Vichy government in France. Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf. 265, 272 |
Occupation | Helen Waddell | |
Occupation | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | FWN
was appointed at age 24 to the chair of classical philology at Basel University
. He is unique among German philosophers for having become nearly a household word outside the academic world, thanks in... |
Occupation | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Having, as a member from its early years of the P. E. N. Club
(later PEN International), supported writers persecuted for their opinions, GHS
began in the 1930s to work for refugees from Nazi
Germany... |
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... |
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 | 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... |
politics | Nancy Cunard | Talking to Cunard in London during the war, Cecily Mackworth
reported: I could feel her contained rage, like a saucepan about to boil over. Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet. 43 |
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... |
politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Although there was no tradition of political involvement in either of their family backgrounds, STW
and Valentine Ackland became politically active because of events in Europe. They were particularly impelled to action by the Reichstag... |
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... |
politics | Maude Royden | |
politics | Willa Muir | Their brief was in particular to assert the independence of the Scottish branch of PEN from the English branch. Having spent a good deal of time in Europe without paying close attention to the political... |
politics | Bernice Rubens | |
politics | Rosita Forbes | RF
had been patriotically outraged at the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935 (which was presented as saving the country from British imperialism). Forbes, Rosita. Appointment with Destiny. Cassell. 12 |
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