Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Fictionalization | Louisa May Alcott | A recent surge of interest has produced (as well as John Matteson
's and Eve LaPlante
's studies of LAM and her father and her mother) a monograph by Harriet Reisin
, 2009; a study... |
| Occupation | Sylvia Beach | SB
worked for twelve hours a day and yet she wrote to her parents to tell them that she had never felt better in her life. She wore riding breeches and amused the locals with... |
| Occupation | Muriel Spark | After her intelligence work came a succession of temporary office jobs: for a different branch of the Foreign Office
, for a tea company, and for the American Red Cross
. |
| politics | Sylvia Beach | SB
was sympathetic to the suffragist movement. In 1913-14, she wrote to her sister proudly advertising that she had made her cousin Mary subscribe to the Suffragette Newsletter. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983. 28 |
| politics | Annie S. Swan | Her job was (apart from the constant knitting without which no decent woman cared to be seen) Swan, Annie S. My Life. Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1934. 193 |
| Residence | Sylvia Beach | SB
resigned from her position with the American Red Cross
in Serbia, boarded the Orient Express
, and returned to Paris. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983. 37-8 |
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1899: Clara Barton, founder of the American Red...
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1899
Clara Barton
, founder of the American Red Cross
, became the first woman to make a submarine descent.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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