Lassner, Phyllis. British Women Writiers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own. St Martin’s Press.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Phyllis Bottome | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Phyllis Bottome | Like another open letter by PB
, I Accuse (not published until the end of this year), this one is highly critical of Anschluss (the Nazi
takeover of Austria), for which she holds Britain partly responsible. Lassner, Phyllis. British Women Writiers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own. St Martin’s Press. 217 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | Her alarm about the scope for Nazi
propaganda (through agents including prostitutes) among the recently rich, now impoverished, South Americans is fuelled by attitudes which are today seen as racist: to the prevalent combination of... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mona Caird | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Stevie Smith | This highly unusual novel takes the form of a disconnected journal by a publisher's secretary named Pompey, an alienated but irrepressible member of the disregarded female work-force, who is clearly an alter-ego for SS
... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caryl Churchill | The play presents no children, only nine adults sitting together. Words are to be assigned to one person or another at the director's choice. In the filmed version mounted online on the website of The... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Cecily Mackworth | Czechoslovakia Fights Back, printed on flimsy wartime economy paper, is a moving document. Its opening sentence runs: Czechoslovakia was the first non-German country to experience a Nazi occupation and has thus had longer than... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ethel Mannin | In Berlin she mourns the end of Weimar Germany's promise of sexual freedom. She laments the passing of individuality and freedom, the assertion of a tyranny that has even the power to interfere in the... |
| 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... |
| Travel | Anne Ridler | Her memoir details her family holidays: six weeks in lodgings in summer and two at Easter, visiting Cornwall, St Davids in Wales, the Lake District, and France (the first time, to Brittany... |
| Travel | Vera Brittain | VB
's political commitments involved a great deal of travel, beginning with journeys all around England as a League of Nations Union
lecturer. She was in Cologne in October 1924 observing the hungry, hopeless Germans... |
| Travel | Barbara Pym | After visiting NaziGermany with the National Union of Students
in March 1934, BP
travelled with the same organization the following year to Budapest. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press. 8-9 Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press. 32-3 |
| Travel | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Like Germany and North America, Austria became a regular destination and she made a number of ongoing friendships there. She visited in 1928, 1934 (when the shadow of Nazism
was already perceptible), 1936, and in... |
| Travel | Mary Agnes Hamilton | This was a step towards remedying what she terms her long neglect of France. She was back there again several times in 1939. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 193-4, 208, 210 |
| Violence | Sylvia Beach | SB
was forced to close Shakespeare and Company
, her Paris bookshop, following threats of seizure by the Nazis
. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 404-5 |
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