Benito Mussolini

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.

In June 1938 she drew up, along with seven other women, a manifesto for The League for the Protection of the Imagination of Women. The League's feminist mandate was to stimulate original work...

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...

In her Foreword, UT promises, as if a court of law, to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. She begins by sketching Hall's family history and her family...

VT had a one-off audience with Mussolini in Rome.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 .

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

SP took up political causes again in 1932, speaking out against fascism in general and Mussolini in particular. When Italy began hostilities against Ethiopia in December 1934, SP and Corio used this event to focus...