Benito Mussolini

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...

Having at first been inclined to admire Mussolini , NJ had by summer 1935 recognized his Fascist regime as hateful. This was a bold stance to adopt at this date for someone resident in Italy...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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.