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Textual Features | Vernon Lee | This small volume was issued by Kegan Paul
and E. P. Dutton
's Today and Tomorrow Series; other authors to publish here included Rebecca West
, Bertrand Russell
, and J. B. S. Haldane
... |
Textual Features | Mildred Cable | This book also addresses the importance of literacy throughout the world. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 195 Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. The Book which Demands a Verdict. S. C. M. Press. 111 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth von Arnim | She played with the epistolary form at several points throughout her writing career. She employed the form in Christine (1917), as well as in several unpublished experiments. For these experiments she recruited male writers such... |
Residence | Amabel Williams-Ellis | Until a fire destroyed it in December 1951, the Williams-Ellises lived mainly at his family home, Plâs Brondanw in Portmeirion, North Wales, the village which Clough was recreating in the Italianate style. Guests at... |
Residence | Elizabeth von Arnim | Francis's brother, Bertrand Russell
, lived with them for a short while before he was imprisoned for engaging in pacifist journalism. Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head. 203-4 |
Reception | May Sinclair | Bertrand Russell
(after writing to MS
to let her know he was doing so) reviewed it for the Nation with what biographer Suzanne Raitt
calls acclaim. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 42n1 |
Publishing | Vernon Lee | VL
's political stance was seen as dangerously unpatriotic: only a few of her essays were published by the Labour Leader, Nation, and New Statesman. In letter to Havelock Ellis
in September... |
Author summary | Lady Ottoline Morrell | LOM
is best known as an early twentieth-century literary hostess who appears frequently in the memoirs, biographies, and fictions written by her guests. She aspired to be a writer herself, and she produced journals, letters... |
politics | Vera Brittain | She wrote later in her diary that her mind had been made up more by Bertrand Russell
's pamphlet Which Way to Peace? than by anything that Mumford had said. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 357 |
politics | Mary Butts | MB
was a pacifist who sympathised strongly with the position of conscientious objectors. Believing that conscription was a sign of the collective insanity that has come over the world, Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company. 6 |
politics | Ethel Sidgwick | The Congress, held from 28 April to 1 May, attracted 1,200 women from twelve countries, both warring and neutral, to discuss means of achieving peace. Others meeting with the delegates on the subsequent peace tour... |
politics | Virginia Woolf | On 10 May Germany had invaded Holland and Belgium. In the event of an invasion of England, they could indeed expect a terrible personal fate, on account of their anti-war politics, Leonard's anti-war career and... |
politics | Dora Russell | The Council for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
(forerunner of CND) was founded. DR
was present at its inaugural meeting next day; other prominent members were Vera Brittain
, Julian Huxley
, J. B. Priestley |
politics | Lady Margaret Sackville | Some detail about the Union of Democratic Control
is in order here because her membership of its General Council is at odds with the accepted image of LMS
, and suggests that a side of... |
politics | Eva Gore-Booth | Gore-Booth and Roper described themselves as extreme pacifists. Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press. 163 |
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