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Occupation Theodora Benson
During the Second World War TB worked for the Ministry of Information , writing Speaker's Notes, material for public speeches explaining the war effort.Elizabeth Jenkins , her assistant, said she was brilliant at this...
Occupation John Betjeman
JB worked initially as a private secretary, prep school master, and journalist. During the Second World War he was an assistant in the Ministry of Information and a British press attaché in Ireland, a...
Material Conditions of Writing E. M. Delafield
This thirty-page pamphlet appeared while EMD was working for the Ministry of Information . Critic Maurice McCullen thinks it likely that the Ministry commissioned it as war propaganda to help secure the support of British...
Material Conditions of Writing Freya Stark
A Pamphlet in Defence of Propaganda by FS was published at about the time of her retirement from the Ministry of Information .
Izzard, Molly. Freya Stark: A Biography. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Material Conditions of Writing Kate O'Brien
KOB wrote this novel as a worker for the Ministry of Information early in the Second World War, during which time she was renting accommodation in or near Oxford and enjoying the stimulation of...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Rumer Godden
RG 's husband, James Haynes-Dixon , retired from his job at the Central Office of Information .
Biographer Anne Chisholm dates his retirement 1960, but RG herself is quite definite.
Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan.
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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...
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...
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.
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Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate.
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Employer P. L. Travers
On the outbreak of the Second World War, PLT went to work for a time for the British Ministry of Information .
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, 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.
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Employer Elizabeth Jenkins
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 Phyllis Bottome
PB accepted a position writing for the Ministry of Information under the supervision of John Buchan (later Lord Tweedsmuir) .
There is some confusion between sources about dates of PB 's activities in the years...
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.
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Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray.
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She was then, because of her fluent...

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