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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...

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. The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...

The British Ministry of Information issued, as one of a series published in French for wartime propaganda purposes, a booklet by MAH entitled La Démocratie anglaise en guerre.

While living in Highgate RG took to organizing readings: at Foyles bookshop, promoting young poets; at Kenwood House; and for the Arts Council , where she spent two years on the Poetry Panel...

RG 's husband, James Haynes-Dixon , retired from his job at the Central Office of Information .

EHD was employed by the Ministry of Information to write propaganda articles (largely unidentified) for neutral newspapers.

The Ministry of Information sent EMD on a mission to France.

EMD published a wartime propaganda pamphlet entitled People You Love, probably commissioned by the Ministry of Information .

EMD defiantly maintains a light, satirical tone despite the gravity of the situation. She focuses deliberately on amusing characters and situations: evacuees who return to London because they cannot tolerate country life; a bureaucrat at...

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...

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...

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.

PB accepted a position writing for the Ministry of Information under the supervision of John Buchan (later Lord Tweedsmuir) .

With the support of British authorities, PB used her lectures to promote her political views and to encourage Americans to support the Allies in the war against Nazi Germany. At the end of the tour...

Early in the book she describes her first diagnosis with a lung infection only weeks after her sister's death. She also discusses her life during the First World War, which included a job as a...