Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. Links in the Chain of Life. Hutchinson, 1947.
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Literary Setting | Philip Larkin | The story first picks Phippy up in Form II; in Form IV he fails to borrow a dictionary from an aesthete named the Hon. Percy de Selincourt, who in Form V betrays him and precipitates... |
politics | Emmuska Baroness Orczy | |
politics | Naomi Jacob | |
Textual Features | Una Troubridge | In her Foreword, UT
promises, as if a court of law, to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Troubridge, Una. The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall. Hammond, Hammond, 1961. 5 |
Textual Features | Romer Wilson | The work is often described as epistolary; it is written in the first person, in letters which are varied with sketches that read almost like diary entries. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Shanks, Edward. “Romer Wilson: Some Observations”. The London Mercury, Vol. 22 , No. 130, Aug. 1930, pp. 343-9. 346 |
Textual Production | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
was already alert to the effects of expansionist fascism
when she contributed a foreword to The Tragedy of Abyssinia. What Britain Feels and Thinks and Wants, published by the League of Nations Union
. Pedersen, Susan. Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. Yale University Press, 2004. 380 |
Textual Production | Eleanor Rathbone | During this year and the next she produced a number of reports on threatening international developments. In October that year she and other members of a committee of enquiry into breaches of international law in... |
Textual Production | Cicely Hamilton | Between 1931 and 1939, CH
published a series of travel books, which includes works on France, 1933, Russia, 1934, Austria, 1935, Ireland, 1936, Scotland, 1937, England, 1938, and Sweden... |
Textual Production | Philip Larkin | The Juvenilia Press
produced in 2002 an edition of Incidents from Phippy's Schooldays, PL
's mock boys'-school story (hard to date, but evidently written in the later 1930s during the rise of the Fascists |
Textual Production | Nancy Mitford | In her third novel, Wigs on the Green, NM
satirized the fascist
sympathies of her sisters Unity
and Diana
. Hastings, Selina. Nancy Mitford: A Biography. Hamish Hamilton, 1985. 98-100 Mitford, Nancy. Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford. Editor Mosley, Charlotte, Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. 68-9 |
Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh | EW
embarked on travel writing with Labels: A Mediterranean Journal, 1930, which sets out in breezy letter-writing style to record comfortable travel (around the Middle East and North Africa as well as southern Europe... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edna St Vincent Millay | This volume is composed mostly of personal love poems (some of them dating back to 1932), in a different strain from the contents of Wine from These Grapes, which Millay had intended as a... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Evelyn Waugh | The protagonist of these books, Guy Crouchback, is a middle-aged Roman Catholic, divorced from his wife, Virginia (though not in the eyes of the Church
, which therefore does not regard a sexual fling with... |
Travel | Anne Ridler | Her memoir details her family holidays: six weeks in lodgings in summer and two at Easter, visiting Cornwall, St Davids in Wales, the Lake District, and France (the first time, to Brittany... |
Travel | Mary Agnes Hamilton |
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