Allardice, Lisa. “Uncharted Waters”. The Guardian.
Royal Air Force
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Waters | Sarah was close to her father, Ron, an engineer working in oil refineries who had done his National Service with the RAF
. Waters, Sarah. The Little Stranger. Virago. prelims McCrum, Robert. “What lies beneath”. Guardian.com.uk. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ruth Fainlight | RF
married the man with whom she had been living for years, Alan Sillitoe
(former RAF
radio operator, now a suddenly successful novelist), at Marylebone Town Hall in London. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Evans-Bush, Katy. “The Poet Realized. An Interview with Ruth Fainlight”. Contemporary Poetry Review. |
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 | 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... |
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