Christopher Isherwood

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Standard Name: Isherwood, Christopher

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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.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Bloomfield, Barry Cambray, and Edward Mendelson. W. H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924-1969. University Press of Virginia.
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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.
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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
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.
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Its political interests were served by enlightened...
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.
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, No. 1, pp. 8-27.
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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.
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Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang.
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Her biographer Selina Hastings calls it a novel almost without flaw, and undoubtedly the best of RL 's works.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus.
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Literary responses Mary McCarthy
Edmund Wilson , who encouraged her to write the first story, thought the book marvelous . . . and recommended it to Vladimir Nabokov, whose own work Wilson championed when Nabokov came to the...
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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Auden, W. H., and Christopher Isherwood. Journey to a War. Faber and Faber, 1939.