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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 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
Residence | Naomi Jacob | NJ
, a virtual refugee from Mussolini
's antisemitic regime, reached London from Sirmione in Italy by way of St Raphael in the south of France and Gibraltar. Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin). 161-2 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (14 December 1940): 627 |
politics | Naomi Jacob | She later entered municipal politics in the London borough of Marylebone, making an impassioned speech in support of the Socialist candidate. After that she was adopted as candidate for several elections herself, but was... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Rosita Forbes | RF
's earliest travelling companion, Armorel Meinertzhagen
, became her good friend. Forbes made personal contacts easily, and exacted help on the road from all sorts of highly unlikely individuals, one of them Benito Mussolini |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | 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. Charques, Richard Denis. “Admirer with a Notebook”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1992, p. 166. 166 |
Textual Features | Rosita Forbes | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elaine Feinstein | 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... |
politics | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | |
politics | George Egerton | As momentum began building towards World War Two she seems to have felt that her convictions about humanity's obsession with power and war had been verified. Humanity never really changes and would revert to savagery... |
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