Central Office of Information

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
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.
219
Occupation Rumer Godden
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...
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
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.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
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
The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...
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...
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...
Travel F. Tennyson Jesse
FTJ was sent to France by England's Ministry of Information to write about the Women's Army.
Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch.
84
Publishing F. Tennyson Jesse
FTJ published with Macmillan an important work of history and cultural commentary: The Story of Burma. It was adopted by the Ministry of Information for educational use.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
77
Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch.
229
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.
89
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray.
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...
Employer Kate O'Brien
During the early years of the war, KOB worked for the Ministry of Information .
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...
Employer Dora Russell
DR worked first in the Reference Division, then the Soviet Relations Department, of the Ministry of Information (renamed the Central Office of Information after World War Two).
Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree 3 : Challenge to the Cold War. Virago.
3: x, 4
Occupation Freya Stark
As an advisor on Arabic cultures, FS began work on the outbreak of war with the Publicity Section of the Ministry of Information .
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House.
241, 261
Occupation Freya Stark
In her capacity as a member of the Ministry of Information , FS made a lecture tour of the United States, speaking primarily on Britain's stance on Jewish immigration to Palestine.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House.
305-15

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