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politics | Rosita Forbes | RF
's patriotism has been called in question, however, not so much because she spent much of the war in North America and the Caribbean, but because early in the war she chose to... |
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 | 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 | 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... |
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 | 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 | Maude Royden | |
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 |
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 |
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. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Cecily Mackworth | |
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... |
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 | Jane Gardam | The time is one of hiatus: the war is over, but rationing continues and personal damage to the bereaved and the survivors is only beginning to be assessed. The future is opaque. The book opens... |
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... |
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