Lillian Hellman

Standard Name: Hellman, Lillian

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Textual Production Christina Stead
She had been working on this novel, originally titled Mrs Trollope and Madame Blaise, in the early 1950s. Her New York agent, Helen Strauss , was pessimistic from the first about placing it, and...
Friends, Associates Mary McCarthy
MMC 's long-term friendships included those with Edmund Wilson (even after their divorce) and Hannah Arendt . She attracted notoriety for her falling-out with Lillian Hellman , a leading playwright who began to publish memoirs...
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Brett
It was, however, the second son, Maurice , who proved their father's favourite, and his status affected his treatment of his younger sisters. Sylvia writes of him as a plump little boy with rosy cheeks...

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May 1811: Two teachers in Elgin in Scotland, Miss Woods...

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May 1811

Two teachers in Elgin in Scotland, Miss Woods and Miss Pirie , sued for libel the grandmother of a pupil who had accused them of lesbian behaviour.

1932: US poet Archibald MacLeish won the Pulitzer...

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1932

US poet Archibald MacLeish won the Pulitzer Prize for his epic poemConquistador, which traces the journey taken by Cortez through Mexico.

20 November 1934: Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, a...

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20 November 1934

Lillian Hellman 's The Children's Hour, a play in which schoolgirls accuse teachers of having a lesbian relationship, opened on Broadway, New York.

15 February 1939: Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes opened...

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15 February 1939

Lillian Hellman 's playThe Little Foxes opened on Broadway, in a production that ran for a year and was followed by a film in 1941 with Hellman's screenplay.
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1 April 1941: With the Second World War more than eighteen...

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1 April 1941

With the Second World War more than eighteen months old and the USA still neutral, Lillian Hellman 's dramaThe Watch on the Rhine opened on Broadway.

September 1947: The US House Committee for Un-American Activities...

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September 1947

The USHouse Committee for Un-American Activities (HUAC) began issuing subpoenas to leading figures in the entertainment industry, three years before the communist witch-hunting of Senator Joseph McCarthy made him a household name.

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