Benito Mussolini

The prime minister and foreign minister offered her another free holiday. She had already, however, travelled through High Albania with a pony-train (one of the most wonderful things, she wrote later, in a life full...

Once she had recovered, the Muirs moved back to the Continent, arriving in St Tropez in the spring of 1926. WM later wrote that they were, it seems, turning into Europeans, after all.

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...

Throughout all the vicissitudes of her life she remained a great traveller. On this occasion, when they put in at Rome, Lord Runciman (RL 's father-in-law) had a private audience with Mussolini and...

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...

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. The dominant figures of Hitler and Stalin are flanked...

MS modelled this book around her own teacher, Christina Kay , a character in search of an author. She had begun to write about Miss Kay even as a girl, and her closest schoolfriend,...

Barney's translator Anna Livia describes these memoirs as a combination of war commentary, political theory, and an account of daily life in Fascist Italy. Despite NCB 's insistence that she is apolitical, her loyalties clearly...

The manifesto masks its serious political content with a certain tongue-in-cheek tone: We do not like the way Mussolini has organised his colonial empire. / We do not like the way Hitler has managed his...

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.

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...

EP published Eleven New Cantos, XXI-XLI, the last of which recounts his meeting with Mussolini in January 1933.

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...

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.

Though it includes a sketch of Vita, the memoir focuses predominantly on two other love affairs: those between VT and her mother, and between VT and France. Trefusis acknowledges the gaps in this life...