Callard, David. The Case of Anna Kavan. Peter Owen.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Kavan | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Laurence | Margaret Wemyss
, a recent graduate, married Jack Laurence
, a fellow-student whose subject was engineering. He was also a war veteran, having been a mechanic with the RAF
. Stovel, Nora Foster. Divining Margaret Laurence. A Study of Her Complete Writings. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 53 Laurence, Margaret. Dance on the Earth: A Memoir. McClelland and Stewart. 127 King, James. The Life of Margaret Laurence. Alfred A. Knopf. 64 |
Friends, Associates | Nadine Gordimer | As a teenager she socialized with trainee British pilots at a Royal Air Force
base near Johannesburg. Carroll, Rory. “Mining for Nadine Gordimer”. The Globe and Mail, p. R4. R4 |
Literary responses | G. B. Stern | |
Literary Setting | Margery Allingham | In this book she both re-introduced Albert Campion to his many fans, and tried to picture the coming post-war England. The cast of upper-middle-class characters are transformed by their entry into war service in... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
co-wrote a comedy called Sweet Liberty with her brother Bernard Jaeger
, who was in the RAF
at the time. Jaeger, Muriel. Shepherd’s Trade. Arthur H. Stockwell. 82 Catalogue of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3. Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures. Library of Congress. 18 (1945) 1: 180 |
Occupation | Freya Stark | Back in Baghdad in October 1931, FS
began to increase her writing pace. The Royal Air Force
printed her maps, and she published in the Geographical Journal. She also disguised herself in an 'abba... |
Publishing | Freya Stark | |
Residence | E. Nesbit | |
Residence | Lucy Boston | After her return to England, LB
bought herself a country home: the manor house at Hemingford Grey in Huntingdonshire, Rose, Jasper. Lucy Boston. Bodley Head. 19 |
Residence | Elizabeth Taylor | |
Textual Features | Helen Dunmore | The story is set in the East Riding of Yorkshire, where a young couple, Isabel and Philip Carey, are living in the harsh winter and austerity conditions of 1952, coping with the newness of... |
Textual Features | Winsome Pinnock | WP
used patois for the first time in A Hero's Welcome, and found it liberating. Stephenson, Heidi, and Natasha Langridge. Rage and Reason: Women Playwrights on Playwriting. Methuen Drama. |
Textual Features | Eva Mary Bell | Back at home in Cheltenham, Mary finds the stagnation was worse than anything that I had pictured. Bell, Eva Mary. A Servant When He Reigneth. Hodder and Stoughton. 16 |
Textual Features | Doris Lessing | This book deals (often satirically) with Martha's experience as a member of a rather amateurish Communist Party
group in Africa during the Second World War. The wave of local political consciousness is brief, brought about... |
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