Forbes, Rosita. Appointment with Destiny. Cassell.
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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... |
Characters | Jane Gardam | In the final episode of the main plot, she is informed by officialdom and in an unreadable letter in tiny German script from Theo Zeit that his two children are coming to England as refugees... |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | Her alarm about the scope for Nazi
propaganda (through agents including prostitutes) among the recently rich, now impoverished, South Americans is fuelled by attitudes which are today seen as racist: to the prevalent combination of... |
Textual Features | Rosita Forbes | RF
published when Mussolini
had conquered and exiled Haile Selassie
, but before Queen Wilhelmina
had fled from home before the invading Nazis
, or Russia had switched sides and entered the war against Germany... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Isak Dinesen | |
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 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Isak Dinesen | She had volunteered her journalistic services, as England and France declared war on Germany, to the editor of Politiken, which was published in Copenhagen. He commissioned her for several articles from each... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. M. Delafield | The pamphlet stresses the importance of beating the Nazis
, under whose rule women and children would suffer the most. McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne. 90 |
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 |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hélène Cixous | HC
's mother, Eva Cixous
(born Klein), a midwife, was born in Germany but left in 1933 for Oran after Hitler
's rise to power. Her family was Austro-German Jewish, and many members died in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Cixous | Lyrics from the German folk song Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Thoughts are Free) are woven into and repeated throughout the second half of the book, when the narrator's lover falls sick and her... |
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... |
Reception | Leonora Carrington | André Breton
was an early admirer of the story and included The Debutante in Anthology of Black Humour, an edited collection first published in 1939 but suppressed until 1945 because the Nazi
-compliant Vichy... |
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