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Characters | Bernice Rubens | BR
's characters here have not sweetened in their advanced age. They cherish secrets from the past, or delight in outliving others less lucky, or operate an in-house blackmailing business, or commit gory suicide. The... |
Characters | Jane Gardam | In the final episode of the main plot, she is informed by officialdom and in an unreadable letter in tiny German script from Theo Zeit that his two children are coming to England as refugees... |
Characters | Bernice Rubens | When asked to write his autobiography for publication, Dreyfus both fears and wishes to break his silence. He begins his story with his terribly ironical christening. His self-discovery runs parallel in the novel with the... |
Characters | Marghanita Laski | In France Pierre takes him to meet a curé and the curé's housekeeper, Madame Quilleboeuf, who during the war had smuggled to safety the children of people picked up by the Gestapo
, hiding each... |
Cultural formation | Hannah Arendt | |
Cultural formation | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Barbara Pym | She found several handsome young Germans attractive on her German visit, notably Nazi
party members Friedbert Glück
and Hanns Woischnick
. Since she destroyed the relevant pages of her diary, the facts about these flirtations... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Adrian
(1883-1948) was the youngest Stephen child. After Vanessa's marriage he lived with Virginia at 29 Fitzroy Square, then moved with her to 38 Brunswick Square. Like Thoby, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sybille Bedford | Sybille had a half-sister ten years older than herself, Maximiliana Henrietta, who was known as Jacko. She married first a middle-aged man, then a charming, disastrous young one who became in time a fairly high-placed... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hélène Cixous | HC
's mother, Eva Cixous
(born Klein), a midwife, was born in Germany but left in 1933 for Oran after Hitler
's rise to power. Her family was Austro-German Jewish, and many members died in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Arendt | She later fell in love with her professor, Martin Heidegger
, who was passionately attracted by her beauty and by her depth of thinking. Kristeva, Julia. Hannah Arendt. Translator Guberman, Ross, Columbia University Press, 2001. 14 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Enid Bagnold | EB
's flirtations after Randall Neale
included Dr Harold Waller
, Count Albrecht Bernstorff
(a close friend who was probably killed by the Nazis
during the Second World War) and Donald Strathcona
. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 84, 112, 117, 120, 159 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Barbara Pym | After the end of her university career, BP
travelled with the National Union of Students
to Germany, where the Nazis
were already in power, and found herself attracted by several young men who were... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Philip Larkin | PL
's father, Sydney Larkin
, was treasurer of the city of Coventry at the time of Philip's birth. He was an important influence on his son's development. In politics he moved steadily to the... |
Friends, Associates | Ethel Wilson | In the course of her social duties EW
would meet Baron de Rothschild
, Sir Robert Ouvry
, and the German financier and Westerm pro-Nazi
organizer Baron von Heydebreck (known as Peter)
. Stouck, David. Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography. University of Toronto Press, 2003. 73-4 |
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