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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Material Conditions of Writing | Storm Jameson | She interrupted her work on The Mirror in Darkness in order to write more intensively on the pressing issue of fascism. The others in the new series are With Europe to Let, Cloudless May... |
Literary Setting | Storm Jameson | In this narrative a fascist party in England has taken power by force, following a failed General Strike and with the help of an army of National Volunteers. Its leader, now prime minister, is called... |
Textual Production | F. Tennyson Jesse | This book had its origin when FTJ
, aghast at the speed with which Hitler
was taking over countries like Czechoslovakia, and at Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
's Munich agreement with Nazi Germany, reported... |
Textual Features | Jennifer Johnston | Johnston goes on to represent the gulf dividing old from young and class from class by telling her story in several voices: Minnie's stream of consciousness, that of her uncle (Money draining away. Wastepaper... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sheila Kaye-Smith | She begins with ironical admission that she does not propose to write about the dire international events of the second world war: Hitler
will get less space in her book than herself. Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne. 93 |
Residence | Margaret Kennedy | After Hitler
's victory over Austria in the Anschluss that March, MK
moved her family to their holiday home at Hendre Hall in Wales, where they sought refuge intermittently throughout the war. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 141 |
Publishing | Wyndham Lewis | Time and Tide commissioned WL
to write a series of articles on Adolf Hitler
. These led Lewis to produce a volume, Hitler, 1931, of praise for this alleged Man of Peace. It dismisses Hitler's anti-Semitism. Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research. 316 |
Textual Production | Wyndham Lewis | WL
published two so-called peace pamphlets, Left Wings Over Europe and Count Your Dead: They Are Alive!, expressing his continued admiration for Hitler
and fascism. Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research. 316 |
Textual Production | Wyndham Lewis | WL
retracted his earlier support for Hitler
in two political treatises published this year: The Jews, Are They Human?, and The Hitler Cult. Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research. 316 |
Author summary | Wyndham Lewis | WL
was an early twentieth-century artist and writer: novelist, poet, playwright, periodical editor, commentator on literature and society, and above all a satirist and lampooner of many of his contemporaries. He was the leading spirit... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Cecily Mackworth | |
Textual Features | Cecily Mackworth | Arriving in Israel just after a Jewish terrorist attack CM
reports how she found the streets of Jerusalem full of tense, trigger-happy young British soldiers. Gershon Agronsky
, editor of the Palestine Post, Mackworth, Cecily. The Mouth of the Sword. Routledge and K. Paul. 34 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ethel Mannin | In Berlin she mourns the end of Weimar Germany's promise of sexual freedom. She laments the passing of individuality and freedom, the assertion of a tyranny that has even the power to interfere in the... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Naomi Mitchison | NM
felt that of all her works this was most shadowed by the encroaching power of Hitler
; she felt it was essential for social democrats to have strong rocks to hold to in the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Nancy Mitford | Unity
, the next sister after Diana, developed intense Nazi sympathies during a visit to Germany in 1933. She had a crush on Hitler
, whom she stalked elaborately before she succeeded in meeting him... |
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