Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Rose Allatini | The protagonist here, Franz Ferdinand Ebermann of the London firm of Fawcett and Ebermann, is another Jew with a far-flung family. His Viennese cousins and their ilk, professors' daughters or bank managers' widows or proprietors... |
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 | Enid Bagnold | Although she did not actively support Hitler
's rise to power in Germany, EB
nevertheless admired the vigour of fascism and romanticised the power of Hitler and the Nazi regime. Her regrettable article for the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Enid Bagnold | Here EB
naively publicizes her own ignorance by letting her audience know that she could read no German and had met no single person of importance, or even of the upper classes. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 139 |
Publishing | Enid Bagnold | EB
published an inflammatory article in the Sunday Times under the headline In Germany Today—Hitler
's New Form of Democracy. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 139 |
Textual Production | Beryl Bainbridge | In Young Adolf, BB
built a novel from the persistent story that Hitler
spent some time in England, living in Liverpool in 1912. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (4 November 1978): 14 Bainbridge, Beryl. Young Adolf. Duckworth. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Natalie Clifford Barney | Barney's translator Anna Livia
describes these memoirs as a combination of war commentary, political theory, and an account of daily life in Fascist Italy. Despite NCB
's insistence that she is apolitical, her loyalties clearly... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Theodora Benson | TB
's prefatory letter has a somewhat heavy air of jokiness: abroad is perfectly grand and kind of large. If there is a riot or a coup d'état at any place I'm staying in I... |
Publishing | Phyllis Bentley | PB
published in the Yorkshire Post an open letter, Creed of a Writer, which attacks the Munich peace agreement with Hitler
which had just been signed by Neville Chamberlain
. Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research. 26 |
Education | Phyllis Bottome | PB
continued her studies in Alfred Adler
's Individual Psychology under the direction of Dr Leonard Seif
in Munich, where she witnessed Hitler
's seizure of power. Bottome, Phyllis. The Goal. Faber and Faber. 162-5, 207 |
Residence | Phyllis Bottome | |
Textual Production | Phyllis Bottome | PB
edited a collection of speeches published by Penguin
: Our New Order—or Hitler
's? A Selection of Speeches by Winston Churchill
, the Archbishop of Canterbury
, Anthony Eden
, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 |
Education | Phyllis Bottome | |
Friends, Associates | Phyllis Bottome | PB
's group of Indivdual Psychologists met at Café Heck, where they often ran into Hitler
, a constant visitor at the café before he came to power. Bottome remembers him as a small... |
politics | Phyllis Bottome | With the support of British authorities, PB
used her lectures to promote her political views and to encourage Americans to support the Allies in the war against Nazi Germany. At the end of the tour... |
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