MBL
's gifts as a letter-writer matched her talent for friendship; she delighted in circulating information and the wildest rumours as well.
Elizabeth Northcote, Countess of Iddesleigh, et al. “List of Books by Mrs Belloc Lowndes, Foreword”. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947, edited by Susan Lowndes Marques and Susan Lowndes Marques, Chatto and Windus, pp. prelims, 1 - 3.
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Her diary reflects her absorption in the political and literary worlds of...
Textual Production
Caroline Norton
CN
expressed her views of society and politics in a long poem addressed to the baby future king
, entitled The Child of the Islands.
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Textual Features
Berta Ruck
BR
structures this work by association. Her first chapter begins with the abdication of Edward VIII
and moves back from that to his Investiture as Prince of Wales on 14 June 1911. Her second is...
Textual Features
Rose Tremain
RT
brings together the publicly known facts about the Duchess of Windsor's last years, living in a flat in Paris under the control or manipulation of her secretive and possessive lawyer, with an imaginary interpretation...
Textual Features
Isak Dinesen
Though far less well-known than Out of Africa (which was also written after leaving Africa, though after a shorter interval of time), it is just as evocative. Stambaugh quotes from it: A community of but...
Residence
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
When first married, CADS
lived in a luxurious home at 2 Bennet Street in London. Her husband was often called out suddenly to nearby St James's Palace to attend on members of the royal...
Reception
Ann Bridge
The book made immediate friends in high places. A Yugoslav shipowner's wife gave a copy to Princess Marina
,
Born Princess Marina of Greece, she married the Duke of Kent, a younger son of George...
Reception
Rosita Forbes
Signatures were gathered for a presentation volume for RF
; early signatories were the Prince of Wales
and the Prime Minister
. The presentation was made at a reception attended by peers, peeresses, and bishops...
Publishing
Lady Cynthia Asquith
LCA
produced lives of two members of the royal family. The Duchess of York (about the woman later much loved as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) appeared in spring 1928, and God Save the King...
politics
Sylvia Pankhurst
Years later it was rumoured that in 1914 SP
had planned to kidnap the Prince of Wales
. In 1932 a former Scotland Yard detective was set to publish a book entitled From Information Received...
politics
H. D.
Intensely political about issues involving war and pacifism, HD nevertheless limited her interest to particular areas of politics only. A few years before this she had been deeply invested in the British royal family, putting...
Performance of text
Ngaio Marsh
NM
's mother
played the witch, and her grandfather Edward William Seager
made a present to her of two theatrical treasures: a book entitled Actors of the [Nineteenth] Century by Frederic White
and a shirt...
Occupation
Isak Dinesen
While working very hard at the management of her plantation, she also found time for big-game hunting (some Africans called her Lioness Blixen). Additionally, she enjoyed practising medicine among her farm workers, somewhat in...
Intertextuality and Influence
Githa Sowerby
This play's examination of modern sexual mores may have been provoked by a recent Hollywood scandal involving Greta Garbo
, or more likely (in Riley's view) by the recent affair of King Edward VIII
and...
Friends, Associates
L. M. Montgomery
Baldwin declared himself a huge fan at festivities in Toronto that included the Prince of Wales
and Prince George
. A later British prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald
, claimed that he had read all of...
Timeline
14 June 1911: The future Edward VIII was invested as Prince...
National or international item
14 June 1911
The future Edward VIII
was invested as Prince of Wales at Caernarvon Castle in Wales: the first such ceremony to be held in the Principality itself in modern times.
September 1920: The civil disobedience campaign against British...
National or international item
September 1920
The civil disobedience campaign against British rule in India began; it involved an immense non-cooperation movement, including a boycott of foreign cloth and British imports.
7 October 1922: The Prince of Wales broadcast a message to...
National or international item
7 October 1922
The Prince of Wales
broadcast a message to boy scouts from York House in London.
26 May 1926: The BBC for the first time broadcast speeches...
Building item
26 May 1926
The BBC
for the first time broadcast speeches from the House of Lords
.
1935: The business-oriented and purportedly non-political...
National or international item
1935
The business-oriented and purportedly non-political Anglo-German Fellowship
was formed in London to promote friendly relations between the two countries. It lasted until 1941 before succumbing to the pressure of war.
20 January 1936: King George V died and Edward VIII assumed...
National or international item
20 January 1936
King George V
died and Edward VIII
assumed the throne; he broadcast a message to the Empire the same day from the BBC
's headquarters, Broadcasting House.
10 December 1936: The Abdication Crisis ended when King Edward...
National or international item
10 December 1936
The Abdication Crisis ended when King Edward VIII
finally relinquished the throne; his brother David succeeded him as George VI
.
11-23 October 1937: Embarrassingly for the British government...
National or international item
11-23 October 1937
Embarrassingly for the British government and royal family, the Duke
and Duchess of Windsor
visited Nazi Germany, where they had a cordial meeting with Hitler
.