Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge University Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | This is partly a book about change and modernization. RF
welcomed particularly the stamping out of tribal conflict and corruption in Iran, and the tolerance newly extended to Jews
, Christians
, and Zoroastrians |
politics | Charlotte Despard | CD
stood as a pacifist Labour candidate on 14 December 1918, for the constituency she knew best, in Battersea, in the first British election in which women were entitled to do so, and was... |
Literary responses | Nancy Cunard | Although NC
had received so much press attention during her research, there were not many reviews of NEGRO. The United States press largely ignored it. In London it was reviewed by the Daily Worker... |
Characters | Lettice Cooper | The story is set in a town called Aire, which has been variously identified as Leeds and Sheffield. It depicts the socialist movement at a moment of transition: the rich industrialist Marsdens, the old-money... |
Textual Features | Kate Clanchy | Antigona comes from the province of Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia (from the hamlet of Drenica near Mitrovica), but calls herself a Malësi from the impenetrable mountains that span four countries: Albania, Serbia,... |
Travel | Pearl S. Buck | Several of PSB
's journeys between China and the USA were undertaken for unwelcome medical purposes. Having been in America for undergraduate study, she returned there in 1920 to have a benign tumour removed after... |
Occupation | Pearl S. Buck | PSB
taught at a number of Chinese universities. Early in her first marriage (as well as entertaining for her husband and beginning to write seriously) she taught intermittently from 1925 at Nanjing University
(which was... |
politics | Pearl S. Buck | Though never a thorough-going pacifist, PSB
worked in the 1930s with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
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Textual Features | Pearl S. Buck | Hilary Spurling
calls this text, a favourite of Mao Zedong
and the Communist Party
, a hugely popular saga of resistance against a corrupt and unjust government by a band of thirteenth-century outlaws. Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster. 189 |
Textual Features | Pearl S. Buck | The three daughters of present-day China might well remind readers of the three sons of Wang in The Good Earth trilogy, and Buck had begun with Letter from Peking, 1957, on a project of... |
politics | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
's political activities included steady opposition to France's colonial war in Algeria, and lifelong support for socialism and feminism. Elaine Showalter
has written that SB
's feminist credentials stem from her writing, and... |
Fictionalization | Anne Askew | Knowledge of AA
's writing spread rapidly. The reactionary Stephen Gardiner
, Bishop of Winchester, complained on 6 June 1547 of the number of copies in circulation. Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press. xxviii-xxix |
politics | Hannah Arendt | During her first marriage, HA
criticised the German women's movement for interesting itself in social, or women's issues without considering the broader political causes and consequences which made them of concern to men as well... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Fleur Adcock | The first poem in this volume, like Meeting the Comet, treats a birth-defect—but an unmatching pair of ears, seen from the point of view of the mother, not the baby, is more lightly handled... |
politics | Valentine Ackland | VA
and Warner
joined the Communist Party
, believing, like many of their contemporaries, that Communism offered the best or only defence against encroaching Fascism. Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora. 55 Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Introduction”. Letters: Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited by William Maxwell, Chatto and Windus, p. vii - xvii. xiv |
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