“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Standard Name: Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer
Used Form: Winston Churchill
Used Form: Sir Winston Churchill
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maya Angelou | On the glamorous idea of touring with a show in Europe, MA
writes that her images of London came from Dickens
and Winston Churchill
, her images of Paris from Guy de Maupassant
, and... |
| Reception | Sybille Bedford | David Leavitt
writes of the paired novels A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error (with an intriguing echo of Churchill
on last-ditch military resistance which is aimed at drawing out the importance of... |
| Textual Production | Phyllis Bottome | PB
edited a collection of speeches published by Penguin
: Our New Order—or Hitler
's? A Selection of Speeches by Winston Churchill
, the Archbishop of Canterbury
, Anthony Eden
, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Phyllis Bottome | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Bridge | At that time the Foreign Office, working in London, was distinct from the Diplomatic Service
, working abroad. It was not until after the First World War that Owen O'Malley became a diplomat overseas. He... |
| Textual Production | Ann Bridge | AB
here pays her acknowledgements to Turkish friends and officials as well as English institutions, and also to Winston Churchill
's The Aftermath (1929, last volume of The World Crisis, 1923-9), which she calls... |
| Occupation | Barbara Cartland | She began her writing career as a gossip columnist for the Daily Express in 1923. She was soon noticed by her first employer, Lord Beaverbrook
, and by his friends Winston Churchill
, F. E. Smith |
| Occupation | Barbara Cartland | BC
shared her brothers' strong endorsement of Britain's active role in the Second World War (all three were acquaintanced with Winston Churchill
). She threw herself into war work. Welfare Officers were charged with everything... |
| politics | Laura Ormiston Chant | Later assessments of LOC
's social purity work have likewise been mixed. Heloise Brown
describes her as advocating from an Evangelical feminist position ’The Truest Form of Patriotism’: Pacifist Feminism in Britain, 1870-1902. Manchester University Press. 122 ’The Truest Form of Patriotism’: Pacifist Feminism in Britain, 1870-1902. Manchester University Press. 121 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Cholmondeley | According to Percy Lubbock
, MC
and her sisters entertained often and were charming and successful hostesses. Mary was nevertheless said to be a shy and modest woman who, while she found writing tedious, enjoyed... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | John Galsworthy | The production directly affected government policy: Winston Churchill
(then Home Secretary) saw the play, and in a conversation with JG
agreed to apply the punishment of solitary confinement more sparingly, and for shorter periods. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 10 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 34 Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 261 |
| Violence | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
, who was involved with Dora Marsden
in impeding Winston Churchill
's election rallies in Southport, received grave internal injuries when she was struck by one of the stewards. Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge. 149 |
| Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | Votes for Women carried a piece by BH
(originally intended as a letter to the Times) defending male suffrage supporters against attack by Winston Churchill
. Willis, Chris. Beatrice Harraden—Suffragette Writer. http://replay.web.archive.org/20071209111819/http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/Harraden.htm. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Lyttelton | |
| politics | Dora Marsden | In an episode that became famous in suffragette annals, Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 38 Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 38-9 |
Timeline
30 November 1874: Winston Churchill, British statesman and...
National or international item
30 November 1874
Winston Churchill
, British statesman and war leader, was born in Blenheim Palace at Woodstock, where his mother was attending a dance.
20 October 1909: Helen Alexander Archdale, a leading Scottish...
National or international item
20 October 1909
Helen Alexander Archdale
, a leading Scottish WSPU
member, with Adela Pankhurst
and three others, went on hunger strike in prison after arrest for causing a disturbance in Dundee at a meeting featuring Winston Churchill
.
18 November 1910: A Women's Social and Political Union deputation...
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18 November 1910
A Women's Social and Political Union
deputation protesting against Government inaction on the Conciliation Bill was attacked by police at the House of Commons and 119 were arrested; the day became known as Black Friday.
25 April-19 December 1915: The Gallipoli Campaign was fought by Britain...
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25 April-19 December 1915
The Gallipoli Campaign was fought by Britain and its allies to secure the passage of ships through the Dardanelles; since Turkey had allied itself with Germany, the intention was to attack Constantinople.
February 1916: Painter C. R. W. Nevinson scored a great...
Building item
February 1916
Painter C. R. W. Nevinson
scored a great success with his first one-man show, at the Leicester Galleries in London, of paintings expressive of the dehumanised violence of modern warfare.
1919: The Liberator, a Black US journal, first...
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1919
The Liberator, a Black US journal, first published If We Must Die, a poem of furious defiance by Claude McKay
, an immigrant from Jamaica.
June 1920: The British Communist Party was founded—in...
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June 1920
The British Communist Party
was founded—in a year when socialism was militant in Britain, and when Churchill
sent tanks against Communists in Glasgow as well as in Poland.
Later 1922: Thirty-one women candidates sought office...
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Later 1922
Thirty-one women candidates sought office during the general election campaign, but none were elected to parliament except the sitting members Lady Astor
and Margaret Wintringham
.
1923: The first six volumes of Winston Churchill's...
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1923
The first six volumes of Winston Churchill
's The World Crisis 1911-1918 were published.
6 November 1924: Winston Churchill, having been re-elected...
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6 November 1924
Winston Churchill
, having been re-elected to parliament, and was appointed to the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
26 May 1926: The BBC for the first time broadcast speeches...
Building item
26 May 1926
The BBC
for the first time broadcast speeches from the House of Lords
.
By October 1926: The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first...
Building item
By October 1926
The BBC
named Hilda Matheson
as its first Director of Talks, one of the most highly paid jobs for a woman in any organisation at that time,
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author.
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25 April 1928: Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer,...
National or international item
25 April 1928
Winston Churchill
, Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the first budget speech to be broadcast on the BBC
.
10 May 1940: Winston Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain...
National or international item
10 May 1940
Winston Churchill
succeeded Neville Chamberlain
as British Prime Minister, heading a Coalition government which was designed to submerge party differences in the joint effort to defeat Hitler.
19 May 1940: Winston Churchill made his first BBC radio...
National or international item
19 May 1940
Winston Churchill
made his first BBC
radio broadcast as wartime coalition Prime Minister.
Texts
Schama, Simon, and Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. “Foreword”. We shall fight on the beaches, Guardian News and Media, 2007, pp. 5-6.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer et al. Our New Order—or Hitler’s?. Editor Bottome, Phyllis, Penguin, 1943.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, and Simon Schama. We shall fight on the beaches. Guardian News and Media, 2007.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer. Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches 1897-1963. Editor James, Robert Rhodes, Chelsea House in association with R. R. Bowker, 1974.