Stambaugh, Sara. The Witch and the Goddess in the Stories of Isak Dinesen. UMI Research Press, 1988.
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Textual Production | Eleanor Rathbone | |
Textual Production | Isak Dinesen | ID
published in New York, as Pierre Andrézel, The Angelic Avengers, a short, allegorical novel written to relieve her feelings during the Nazi
occupation of Denmark. Stambaugh, Sara. The Witch and the Goddess in the Stories of Isak Dinesen. UMI Research Press, 1988. 35-6 Thurman, Judith. Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen. Penguin, 1984. 362 and n8 |
Textual Production | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Another play about the theatre that she wrote, The Managing Director, brought her an overall bad experience. Its leading character was based on Fritzi Massary
, an Austrian operetta diva who had fled from... |
Textual Production | Vera Brittain | VB
's literary output during and immediately after World War II was almost entirely taken up with statements of her pacifist convictions both her in non-fictional writing and lecturing and her last two novels. The... |
Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | Cecily Mackworth
made her name with her book I Came Out of France, a vivid first-personaccount of the fall of France to the Nazis
and its immediate effects on the civilian population. Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 Aug. 2006. |
Textual Production | Cicely Hamilton | Between 1931 and 1939, CH
published a series of travel books, which includes works on France, 1933, Russia, 1934, Austria, 1935, Ireland, 1936, Scotland, 1937, England, 1938, and Sweden... |
Textual Production | Anita Brookner | |
Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | CM
's slim volume Czechoslovakia Fights Back was published, one of a series entitled Europe under the Nazis, covering countries from Norway to Yugoslavia. Bowker, Gordon. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. The Independent, 1 Aug. 2006. Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 Aug. 2006. |
Textual Production | Anna Akhmatova | During the years that followed, her writing was sporadic and without hope of reaching print. In 1933 she was translatingShakespeare
's Macbeth, bearing in mind how relevant to her present life was its... |
Textual Production | Sybille Bedford | About 1933, after the rejection of the first novel, Klaus Mann
generously accepted SB
's offer of a review essay on Aldous Huxley
's recent Beyond the Mexique Bay for his new review Die Sammlung... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Theodora Benson | TB
's prefatory letter has a somewhat heavy air of jokiness: abroad is perfectly grand and kind of large. If there is a riot or a coup d'état at any place I'm staying in I... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edna St Vincent Millay | This volume is composed mostly of personal love poems (some of them dating back to 1932), in a different strain from the contents of Wine from These Grapes, which Millay had intended as a... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hannah Arendt | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hannah Arendt | Arendt puts forward several points which many readers found controversial or even unacceptable. As her sub-title makes clear, she does not present Eichmann as a monster, an exception, or a freakishly wicked specimen of the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. M. Delafield | The pamphlet stresses the importance of beating the Nazis
, under whose rule women and children would suffer the most. McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne, 1985. 90 |
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