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Literary responses | Josephine Tey | The play garnered high praise from contemporary theatre critics, and was immensely popular with audiences, some of whom reputedly went to see it thirty or forty times. Gielgud, Sir John. Early Stages. Falcon. 178 |
Characters | Annie S. Swan | This is both a religious and a political novel, which is not afraid to raise complex issues even if it does sometimes suggest simple answers. It is set almost in the present day, immediately before... |
Travel | Mary Stott | In 1938 MS
and her husband had thought of going to Vienna on holiday, but Hitler's recent occupation of Austria decided them on Italy instead, which they toured by train. They were in Rome for... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Christina Stead | By chance House of All Nations (which has been called a mammoth study of the world of international finance) Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | In 1931 ES
was alarmed by the economic situation (which, after a glimmer of prosperity, threatened to plunge Germany back into deprivation) but much more by the rise of Hitler
ism and the young storm-troops... |
Cultural formation | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | While working for the Daily HeraldGHS
developed the habit of dropping into StMartin-in-the-Fields for the peace and quiet. Thus she met the Rev. Dick Sheppard
, who was one influence towards her conversion to... |
Textual Features | Bernice Rubens | This novel describes a mixed marriage: even though both the partners are Jews they come from different worlds. Ruth Lazarus's family are Ostjuden from Lithuania: emotionally noisy, demonstrative, combative. Jack Millar's family were refugees... |
politics | Maude Royden | |
Performance of text | Anne Ridler | Another verse play, Witnesses, about the group of German officers who conspired unsuccessfully to assassinate Hitler
, was performed in Manchester Cathedral but never published. Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp. 195-6 |
Textual Features | Kate O'Brien | The novel centres on an actual historical character, Ana, Princess of Eboli, also known as Ana de Mendoza
(familiar to admirers of Verdi
's opera Don Carlo as Princess Eboli), a Spanish great lady of... |
Residence | Elma Napier | EN
's family spent summers at the family estate of Gordonstoun, near Elgin, and winters at another estate seventeen miles away, Altyre at Forres. The family's third estate, Dallas, or Torchastle... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Murdoch | During her student days IM
attracted innumerable admirers, women as well as men: at times it seemed that everyone was in love with her. They included the first of two men whom she loved deeply... |
politics | Willa Muir | Nevertheless, after their experience in Budapest, where the reality of Hitler
's growing power was ubiquitous and inescapable, the Muirs retreated from politics altogether, being revolted by the lust for dominance with its political fevers... |
Textual Features | Jan Morris | Here Hitler
has made Oxford his British capital (as historically he intended to do), with his headquarters at Christ Church
(James Morris's old... |
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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