Forbes, Rosita. Appointment with Destiny. Cassell.
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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Gwen Moffat | He had been diverted from physical training instruction in the RAF
in 1951, following a horrific plane crash in Scotland, into the field of mountain rescue. From early 1952 he headed the RAF mountain rescue... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Rosita Forbes | The opening pages of her second book of memoirs give a sketch of her brother John, farming under dreadful wartime difficulty in Kent, the family estate having been requisitioned for the RAF
. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Maggie Gee | Her father, Victor Valentine Gee
, was dominant in the household. Gee, Maggie. How May I Speak in My Own Voice? Language and the Forbidden. Birkbeck College. 8 Gee, Maggie. “Serious Fun”. Mslexia, No. 59, pp. 12-13. 12 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Ridler | AR
and her husband had two daughters and two sons, and in due course six or more grandchildren and the same number of great-grandchildren. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp. 6 |
| Cultural formation | H. D. | H. D.
first met, after an eighteen-month correspondence, with Hugh, Lord Dowding
, who had headed the RAF
's Fighter Command
during the Battle of Britain and was now an active spiritualist and theosophist. Guest, Barbara. Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World. Collins. 262 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Dowding |
| Cultural formation | H. D. | H. D.
held seances during which believed that she had been given messages by dead RAF
airmen warning of an imminent Third World War. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 45 Friedman, Susan Stanford. “’Remembering Shakespeare Always, But Remembering Him Differently’: H.D.’s By Avon River”. Sagetrieb, Vol. 2 , No. 2, pp. 45-70. 52-3 |
| Characters | Andrea Levy | The central events of the novel take place in postwar London over a few weeks during 1948, but those events are shaped by the separate experiences of the central characters before that time. The voices... |
| Characters | Karen Gershon | This is a book about Inge's loves: her lost, buried love for her parents, her all-consuming love for her brother (to whom she feels deeply, inherently inferior), her love for baby Georgie (who, after they... |
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