Nazis

RF had been patriotically outraged at the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935 (which was presented as saving the country from British imperialism). Visiting Germany in 1937, when she found most young...

SB 's political activities included steady opposition to France's colonial war in Algeria, and lifelong support for socialism and feminism. Elaine Showalter has written that SB 's feminist credentials stem from her writing, and...

During World War One GHS became and remained a fully convinced pacifist, as did her husband. Years later, with Nazi Germany re-arming, she reluctantly ceased to be a pacifist. She resigned, painfully, from Dick Sheppard

It appears that at this date BP admired (as did so many German women of analogous background) the ritual, the pageantry, perhaps the swaggering masculinity connected with National Socialism . Some of her English friends...

During Storm Jameson 's presidency of the English branch of PEN International (which began early in 1938) the Schützes lent Glebe House for a two-day sale raising funds for refugees from the Nazis . GHS

Writer SB , having fled from Paris when the Nazis occupied it, returned and joined a Resistance network, more than fifty percent of whose members were dead before the end of the war.

ER , a strong anti-fascist, chaired a meeting of women's groups organized by the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship , to discuss the declining rights of German women under Nazism .

In the same month that the House of Commons was officially informed of the Nazi holocaust of Jews and other minorities, ER began to pressure the government for a formal debate on the catastrophe.

These were, however, very unhappy years for MAH politically. She hated the blindness of British governments since 1931 towards the meaning of Hitler and Hitlerism and their policy of appeasement. She also felt that the...

GS 's politics were equivocal and often conservative. She was not explicitly feminist, yet many critics have celebrated her early writings on female lives and relationships as pro-feminist. GS writes in Everybody's Autobiography that she...

As the political climate moved increasingly towards war, ER advocated League of Nations sanctions against Mussolini 's Italy (with the threat of force), as well as a closer relationship between Britain and the USSR in...

NC worked as a translator in London for the Free French , the French government-in-exile during the rule of Marshall Pétain 's Nazi -compliant Vichy government in France.

Meanwhile, because members of Constable 's were serving in the armed forces, HW went back to work in publishing. She became assistant editor of the Conservative monthly the Nineteenth Century and After (published by Constable)...

FWN was appointed at age 24 to the chair of classical philology at Basel University . He is unique among German philosophers for having become nearly a household word outside the academic world, thanks in...

Having, as a member from its early years of the P. E. N. Club (later PEN International), supported writers persecuted for their opinions, GHS began in the 1930s to work for refugees from Nazi Germany...