Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Naomi Jacob | NJ
wrote a letter of appreciation to Radclyffe Hall
after The Well of Loneliness appeared in 1928. In January the following year she met Hall and Una Troubridge
when the former lectured in Southend (though... |
politics | Naomi Jacob | |
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... |
Travel | Rosamond Lehmann | 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... |
Cultural formation | Denise Levertov | Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England
, where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and... |
Occupation | Una Marson | UM
was one of a very large crowd that gathered at Waterloo Station to greet the Emperor Haile Selassie
on his arrival in London as an exile shortly after his surrender to Mussolini
's Italian troops. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 101 |
Travel | Willa Muir | 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. Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press. 122 Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press. 122-3 |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | |
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 |
politics | Ezra Pound | EP
, who had become a supporter of Mussolini
's Fascist state, began making regular radio broadcasts on Rome Radio to America which were both antisemitic and condemnatory of President Roosevelt
. Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1. xxv “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | As the political climate moved increasingly towards war, ER
advocated League of Nations
sanctions against Mussolini
's Italy (with the threat of force), as well as a closer relationship between Britain and the USSR in... |
Literary Setting | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | The Sam Mogford of this book is encountered in the opening chapter in a boarding-house in Italy (Mussolini
's Italy), seen as a typical Englishman through the eyes of Carlo, an Italian Anglophile. Carlo... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Spark | MS
modelled this book around her own teacher, Christina Kay
, a character in search of an author. Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable. 56 |
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... |
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 |
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