Christopher Isherwood

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Standard Name: Isherwood, Christopher

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Friends, Associates W. H. Auden
It was during his undergraduate years that WHA formed close friendships with his near-contemporary and fellow writer Christopher Isherwood and with fellow poet Stephen Spender . For a while these three were seen as a...
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
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/.
Dedications W. H. Auden
WHA published his Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, dedicated to Christopher Isherwood and Chester Kallman .
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1967
Auden, W. H. Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957. Faber and Faber.
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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Education W. H. Auden
Wystan Auden attended St Edmund's School at Hindhead inSurrey (where he first met Christopher Isherwood ), then Gresham's School at Holt inNorfolk, which was supposedly modern and progressive but which he later described as...
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...
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...
Friends, Associates Rosamond Lehmann
RL was also a great success with the art-historian Bernard Berenson . Among a younger generation of artists and writers whom she often welcomed as guests were Siegfried Sassoon , W. H. Auden , Christopher Isherwood
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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Friends, Associates Ling Shuhua
Other authors with connections to Bloomsbury were drawn to Wuhan: W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood visited the campus on 22 April 1938 during their longer trip on which they wrote about the Sino-Japanese...
Occupation Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
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...
Friends, Associates Carson McCullers
CMC therefore shared her day-to-day life at various times with Davis , W. H. Auden , Louis MacNiece , Gypsy Rose Lee , Benjamin Britten , Richard Wright , Paul and Jane Bowles , Christopher Isherwood

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Auden, W. H., and Christopher Isherwood. Journey to a War. Faber and Faber, 1939.