Benito Mussolini

Standard Name: Mussolini, Benito

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Violet Trefusis
VT had a one-off audience with Mussolini in Rome.
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton.
93, 96
Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian. Don’t Look Round. Hutchinson.
121
politics Violet Trefusis
VT associated herself with women deeply involved in wartime activities, and specifically (despite her pre-war visit to Mussolini ) with anti-Nazi events. For instance, her former house-guest Hélène Terré worked for the Red Cross in...
Textual Features Violet Trefusis
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...
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
She begins by sketching Hall's family history and her family...
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
The League's feminist mandate was to stimulate original work...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Wickham
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...
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.

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