Tynan, Katharine. The Years of the Shadow. Constable.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Violet Trefusis | VT
associated herself with women deeply involved in wartime activities, and specifically (despite her pre-war visit to Mussolini
) with anti-Nazi events. For instance, her former house-guest Hélène Terré
worked for the Red Cross
in... |
| Publishing | Katharine Tynan | Flower of Youth was so popular that KT
's publishers, Sidgwick and Jackson
, printed and sold it as a leaflet, donating the profits to the Red Cross
. |
| Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | She had written it from a sickbed and it had appeared in New York daily papers immediately after the fall of Paris to the Nazis
. It now carried her statement, at her publisher's suggestion... |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 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 |
| Travel | Sarah Macnaughtan | During her travels, although she was not a trained nurse, she tended victims of atrocities in the Balkans and volunteered for the Red Cross
during the Boer War. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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