Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Employer | Enid Bagnold | |
Employer | Gertrude Bell | |
Textual Features | Mary Frances Billington | Much of this work covers the contributions of women in the fields of nursing and commodity production, although Billington also includes accounts and photographs of women police volunteers. She provides elaborate first-hand accounts of work... |
Textual Production | Mary Frances Billington | MFB
published The Red Cross
in War: Woman's Part in the Relief of Suffering, a collection of articles written for the Daily Telegraph on the contributions of women as wartime nurses and medical professionals. Billington, Mary Frances. The Red Cross in War: Woman’s Part in the Relief of Suffering. Hodder and Stoughton. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Frances Billington | MFB
credits Queen Mary
and her attempts to mobilize women in the workforce for the passing of that sense of utter impotence which possessed [women] in the first days of the war. Billington, Mary Frances. The Roll-Call of Serving Women: A Record of Woman’s Work for Combatants and Sufferers in the Great War. The Religious Tract Society. 24 |
politics | Ann Bridge | AB
also wanted to help after witnessing the appalling conditions in which 90,000 refugee ex-soldiers of the Spanish Republican Army
were corralled behind barbed wire on an unsheltered beach in southern France, succumbing to pneumonia... |
Occupation | May Cannan | |
Occupation | Agatha Christie | |
Textual Production | Elizabeth De la Pasture | Though EDP
appears to have stopped writing at or shortly after her second marriage, she did while living in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) edit a collection of brief memoirs. Our Days on the Gold... |
Occupation | Monica Dickens | Quite early in 1940 (after a spell as a writer and another collecting scrap iron for armaments) MD
joined the Red Cross
as a VAD (that is, a Voluntary Aid Detachment
volunteer nurse), then became... |
Material Conditions of Writing | E. M. Forster | EMF
published Alexandria: A History and A Guide, which drew on his work in that city with the Wounded and Missing Bureau of the Red Cross
during the First World War. Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. 216 Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 247 Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of E. M. Forster. Clarendon. 27 |
Residence | Karen Gershon | Four weeks after Kristallnacht, Kaethe Loewenthal (later KG
) and her sister Lise put their names down to travel the following Wednesday to England on their tightly limited visas arranged by the Red Cross
. Gershon, Karen. A Lesser Child. P. Owen. 194 Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking. 99 |
politics | Storm Jameson | In Prague, Jameson spent time with her longtime friend Jiřina Tůmová
and various politicians and bureaucrats, including Edvard Benes or Beněs
. Beněs was the former president of Czechoslovakia, whom Jameson came to know at... |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information
once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations. Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 524 |
Textual Features | Vernon Lee | The ballet is an allegorical attack on the Vices of Civilization and the Insanities ofWar. Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus. 223 |
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