House, Adrian. “Ever Afterwards”. A Lively Oracle: A Centennial Celebration of P.L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins, edited by Ellen Dooling Draper and Jenny Koralek, Published for the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation by Larson Publications, 1999, pp. 25-28.
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Employer
Phyllis Bentley
PB
moved to London to work as a researcher in the American Division of the Ministry of Information
: she lodged at the Senate House of London University, which had been requisitioned during the war.
Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz, 1962.
Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree 3 : Challenge to the Cold War. Virago, 1985.
3: x, 4
Employer
Elizabeth Bowen
She worked, from 1940, for the Ministry of Information
, for which she reported on the situation in the neutral country of Ireland and on Irish attitudes to the war.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
202-4
Employer
Ann Bridge
Early in the second world war she worked at an indeterminate job with the Ministry of Information
, commissioning articles on the British war effort and placing them in US periodicals: the placing had to...
EJ
's war work was done in the Civil Service
, first for the Assistance Board
which helped in the settlement of Jewish refugees and then with compensation payments to those whose property had been...
Employer
Ella Hepworth Dixon
EHD
was employed by the Ministry of Information
to write propaganda articles (largely unidentified) for neutral newspapers.
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson, 1930.
86
Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate, 2005.
101
Employer
Rose Macaulay
A year after taking this job she was transferred from the War Office
to the Ministry of Information
, where she worked as a wartime bureaucrat.
Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972.
89
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
160-1
She was then, because of her fluent...
Family and Intimate relationships
Rose Macaulay
She met him while working at the Ministry of Information
. They fell in love, although Gerald was married. He was a prolific novelist; RM
's favourite among his works was his last, The Holy...
Biographer Anne Chisholm
dates his retirement 1960, but RG
herself is quite definite.
Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan, 1989.
219
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Jenkins
In old age EJ
said the love of her life had been a handsome, charismatic, married surgeon, Sir Eardley Holland
. She had been introduced to him by one of his daughters, who was a...
Friends, Associates
Phyllis Bentley
At the Ministry of InformationPB
worked with politician and writer Mary Agnes Hamilton
, who admired Bentley's superb warmth and strength of feeling, but felt them to be a drawback for this kind of...
Timeline
Winter 1940-1: A film about London in the Blitz, entitled...
Writing climate item
Winter 1940-1
A film about London in the Blitz, entitled London Can Take It, played to audiences totalling around sixty million people in the USA.
Reynolds, David. “Zest”. London Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2002, pp. 34-5.