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Christopher Isherwood
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Standard Name: Isherwood, Christopher
Connections
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Travel | W. H. Auden | From autumn 1928 WHA
lived for nearly a year at Berlin in Germany, at first with a comfortably bourgeois family selected by his own, then in a poor district selected by himself. He chose... |
Textual Production | W. H. Auden | WHA
and Christopher Isherwood
published Journey to a War, a book of poetry based on their trip to China to investigate the Sino-Japanese War. Bloomfield, Barry Cambray, and Edward Mendelson. W. H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924-1969. University Press of Virginia. 39 |
Textual Production | W. H. Auden | Actual performance pieces were The Dance of Death, published in 1933 and performed by the Group Theatre
in 1934, and three plays written with Isherwood
: The Dog Beneath the Skin; or, Where is... |
Residence | W. H. Auden | WHA
, with Christopher Isherwood
, left England for the United States, not intending at the time to stay permanently. He became a US citizen in 1946. Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press. 77 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | E. M. Forster | The genesis of this novel probably dates from a visit which EMF
made in September 1913 to the socialist and homosexual activist Edward Carpenter
, whose lifelong campaign against prejudice and inequity were an inspiration... |
Occupation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West
, Stella Benson
, Cicely Hamilton
, Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor
and Ellen Wilkinson
, Virginia Woolf
, Naomi Mitchison
, E. M. Delafield
, Rose Macaulay |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | The Press, which began as therapy and for the purpose of publishing the works of its owners, grew into a major engine of modern culture and thought. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 371-3 |
Literary responses | Dodie Smith | Initially, the novel had a great vogue among adolescent girls, but others admired it as well. DS
's friend Christopher Isherwood
wrote a letter to her full of praise for the novel: Your tremendous strength... |
Literary responses | Hope Mirrlees | This novel was well received in England by Christopher Isherwood
and other readers. It was published in the United States in 1925, and a translation was published in France in 1929. Henig, Suzanne. “Queen of Lud: Hope Mirrlees”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol. 1 , No. 1, pp. 8-27. 15 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | Novelist Christopher Isherwood
became Lehmann's friend as a result of his admiration of this book. LeStourgeon, Diana. Rosamond Lehmann. Twayne. 74 Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang. 103 Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 139 |
Literary responses | Mary McCarthy | Edmund Wilson
, who encouraged her to write the first story, thought the book marvelous . . . and recommended it to |
Literary responses | Jan Morris | The TLS review, by Russell R. (Dai) Davies
, was titled Mr Morris changes trains (from Christopher Isherwood
's novel Mr Norris Changes Trains, 1935). It referred to the recent surgery as the deed... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Renault | Homosexuals in British fiction had been portrayed mostly as sick, funny, or both since the Oscar Wilde
trials (1895). E. M. Forster
had kept his Maurice unpublished. Radclyffe Hall
had run into trouble. Virginia Woolf |
Intertextuality and Influence | Zoë Fairbairns | ZF
's second contribution, Mrs Morris Changes Lanes, takes its title from Christopher Isherwood
's Mr Norris Changes Trains, 1935. Elderly Mrs Morris feeds her confidence and independence through her adventures in becoming... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Naomi Mitchison | This indicates how the second world war turned her thoughts back towards the first. She noted the feeling of being on a small island of sand, cut off from past and future, and how wireless... |
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Texts
Auden, W. H., and Christopher Isherwood. Journey to a War. Faber and Faber, 1939.