Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
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Wealth and Poverty | Ruth Fainlight | Sillitoe had been invalided out of the RAF
with tuberculosis and had a small disability pension, but still when the young couple left England they had to borrow money for the journey south and the... |
Violence | Marie Belloc Lowndes | But her temporary home in Shropshire, though a bomb fell nearby, felt safer than her house in the London suburbs, which was encircled by very serious bombings, Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus. 203 |
Travel | Freya Stark | FS
began another journey through Persia, this time to map the ancient settlement of Shabwa. She was unsuccessful at this because of an angina attack, but her dramatic rescue by the Royal Air Force |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Phyllis Bottome | The book describes the effects of bombing: effects on the cities of London and Liverpool, the Army
, Navy
, and Air Force
, the Women's Auxiliary Services
, and the lives of ordinary... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Cecily Mackworth | Czechoslovakia Fights Back, printed on flimsy wartime economy paper, is a moving document. Its opening sentence runs: Czechoslovakia was the first non-German country to experience a Nazi occupation and has thus had longer than... |
Textual Production | Gwen Moffat | GM
issued through her usual publisher, Hodder and Stoughton
, Two Star Red. A Book about R.A.F.
Mountain Rescue. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3239 (26 March 1964): 251 |
Textual Production | Freya Stark | This text details Stark's attempt to reach the buried site of Shabwa; this failed when she experienced an angina attack and was rescued by the RAF
. Harry St John Philby
became the first... |
Textual Production | Lesley Storm | Three years later, Abem Finkel
and Lesser Samuels
adapted this play for film. The cinematic version, starring Rita Hayworth
and Lee Bowman
, was titled Tonight and Every Night. It turns Rosalind into an... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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