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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 |
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 |