Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Health | Virginia Woolf | In March and April 1936 VW
had a period of threatened breakdown. This was a time of overwork against the clock (not uncommon in her professional life), of the visible political threat of Hitler
(who... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | It is much remarked that VW
referred to Leonard as a penniless Jew. Was she anti-semitic? She married a Jew in an anti-semitic culture, and she wrote to him candidly before they were married... |
Textual Features | Romer Wilson | This novel seems like a prophecy of the Nazi
rise: Hitler
had already led the failed Beer Hall Putsch, and had written Mein Kampf during the resultant prison sentence. The protagonist, Friederich (Fritz) Storm... |
politics | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
was gathering signatures for a letter to Edvard Benes
, President of Czechoslovakia, about Chamberlain
's betrayal of Czech democracy in face of the threat from Hitler
. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 6: 283 |
politics | Anna Wickham | In June 1938 she drew up, along with seven other women, a manifesto for The League for the Protection of the Imagination of Women. Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, pp. 1-48. 27 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Wickham | The manifesto masks its serious political content with a certain tongue-in-cheek tone: We do not like the way Mussolini
has organised his colonial empire. / We do not like the way Hitler
has managed his... |
politics | Beatrice Webb | The trip (with another taken by Sidney in 1934) reversed the Webbs' previous opinions of Soviet communism, which they had hitherto (before rising mass unemployment and increasing de-regulation destroyed their faith in the potential improvement... |
politics | Harriet Shaw Weaver | After Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
signed the Munich peace agreement with Hitler
on 29 September 1938, the Labour Party's continued support of the government provoked HSW
to resign, with a speech criticising the party's ideology... |
politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Although there was no tradition of political involvement in either of their family backgrounds, STW
and Valentine Ackland became politically active because of events in Europe. They were particularly impelled to action by the Reichstag... |
politics | Helen Waddell | |
Textual Features | Helen Waddell | This collection, wrote Waddell as translator, had no academic justification: it is arbitrary and unrepresentative of any author, or of any age. It reflected her despair during the months when the Second World War ceased... |
death | Elizabeth von Arnim | She was cremated and buried first at Lincoln Fort Cemetery in Washington, DC. In 1947 she was re-interred beside her brother Sydney
in St Margaret's Church in Tyler's Green, near Penn, in Buckinghamshire... |
politics | Alison Uttley | By the 1930s AU
's politics had become fervently patriotric: she was a firm supporter of Ramsay MacDonald
's National Coalition Government, elected on 26 August 1931. Over the next few years her dread of... |
Textual Features | Una Troubridge | In her Foreword, UT
promises, as if a court of law, to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Troubridge, Una. The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall. Hammond, Hammond. 5 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Una Troubridge | UT
, who devoted herself to Hall's writing career both during her life and after her death, provides detailed descriptions of Hall's writing habits, patterns, and schedules. Their days, she writes, comprised [w]riting, reading, dictating... |
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