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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | RF
published when Mussolini
had conquered and exiled Haile Selassie
, but before Queen Wilhelmina
had fled from home before the invading Nazis
, or Russia had switched sides and entered the war against Germany... |
Textual Features | Rosita Forbes | This book concentrates on those of the princely states which RF
had visited (the majority) and their often highly characterful as well as flamboyantly wealthy rulers. Relying mostly on her own experience, with some digressions... |
Textual Features | Elaine Feinstein | This novel is an extraordinary tour de force in taking Lawrence's patterns of thought and speech to write a refutation, through a female narrator (his protagonist herself), of his sexual theories. EF
traces forwards both... |
Birth | Buchi Emecheta | She was the elder of two children, born prematurely at seven months and not expected to live: a little bigger than the biggest rat you've ever seen, all head. Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann. 9 |
politics | George Egerton | In the postwar years GE
seems also to have grown somewhat disillusioned with British politics in general. During the General Strike (which began on 3 May 1926) she wrote in her diary, I am convinced... |
Textual Features | Isak Dinesen | Here Mr Pennhallow represents Hitler
, a figure of masculine oppression. He is a trafficker in prostitutes, whom he regards with disgust and hatred. The deepest sunk creature refuses to drink from the cup out... |
Textual Production | Clemence Dane | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hélène Cixous | HC
's mother, Eva Cixous
(born Klein), a midwife, was born in Germany but left in 1933 for Oran after Hitler
's rise to power. Her family was Austro-German Jewish, and many members died in... |
Textual Features | Agatha Christie | Among its most fascinating contents is The Capture of Cerberus, an unpublished story dating from 1939, which includes barely disguised version of Adolf Hitler
: a curious and disturbing relic, as a reviewer called it. Sperlinger, Tom. “Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks, By John Curran”. The Independent. |
Textual Features | Mona Caird | |
Travel | Vera Brittain | VB
's political commitments involved a great deal of travel, beginning with journeys all around England as a League of Nations Union
lecturer. She was in Cologne in October 1924 observing the hungry, hopeless Germans... |
politics | Ann Bridge | AB
was always alert to and outspoken about national and international attitudes. From a chance word spoken by a Swiss banker, she learned of Hitler
's original plan to invade Russia six weeks earlier than... |
Reception | Ann Bridge | AB
arrived in Hungary in 1940 to find that two of her novels had just been translated into Magyar, and the publishers had waited until she got there to provide window displays with photographs for... |
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 |
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