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.
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politics | Natalie Clifford Barney | Abandoning her formerly held pacifist views, NCB
supported Mussolini
and the Fascists. In 1940 she presented Ezra Pound
with a radio and a letter praising Lord Ha Ha
's pro-Nazi broadcasts for their exceptionally far-sweeping... |
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 |
Publishing | Phyllis Bottome | The BBC approached Bottome to write propaganda to help entice America into war because of the popularity of her novels in the United States. Her script uses Disney
cartoon characters to depict the two... |
Residence | Naomi Jacob | NJ
, a virtual refugee from Mussolini
's antisemitic regime, reached London from Sirmione in Italy by way of St Raphael in the south of France and Gibraltar. Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin). 161-2 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (14 December 1940): 627 |
Residence | Naomi Jacob | In response to Mussolini
's racial laws, which barred Jews from various kinds of employment, NJ
left Italy. While Olivia Etherington-Smith
and Sadie Robinson
travelled from Sirmione to England, she spent some time first at... |
Residence | Phyllis Bottome | |
Textual Features | 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 | Viola Tree | The swallow of the title is the play's protagonist, Mary. In her marriage to the well-intentioned prig Joseph Elwes, she struggles against the gender constraints imposed on her as a woman and a wife. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (7 May 1925): 12 |
Textual Features | Violet Trefusis | |
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 |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | The Hogarth Press was publishing work by Mussolini
at the same time as this work, in which an idealised Italy, site of freedom and escape, plays an important role. Snaith, Anna. “Of Fanciers, Footnotes and Fascism: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Flush</span> and the 1930s”. Voyages Out, Voyages Home: The Eleventh Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Bangor. |
Textual Production | George Egerton | She signs her letters as Aunt George or (her family nickname) Aunt Chav. She often describes theatrical events she has been to, and books she has read. She offers White career advice, telling him for... |
Textual Production | Ezra Pound | EP
published Eleven New Cantos, XXI-XLI, the last of which recounts his meeting with Mussolini
in January 1933. Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1. xxiv |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | She observes that she can write at first hand about most of the men who—to-day—are making war, or struggling to prevent it in three continents. Charques, Richard Denis. “Admirer with a Notebook”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1992, p. 166. 166 |
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