Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo.
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Textual Features | Simone de Beauvoir | This novel is about moral responsibility for those whom Christianity calls our neighbour, and about the possibility that violence can in certain circumstances be morally acceptable. Each of its two central characters, Jean Blomart and... |
Residence | Violet Trefusis | Having fled from Paris, VT
very reluctantly returned with her mother
to safety in England from now Nazi
-occupied France on a Royal Navy
troop ship. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo. 271-2 |
Residence | Violet Trefusis | According to her later story (which took two hours to tell and made her weep in the telling), she fled from Paris when the Nazis
overran France, in a small car with an aristocratic friend... |
Residence | Cecily Mackworth | |
Reception | Henry Handel Richardson | The Times Literary Supplement said HHR
had been scrupulous with the facts, had exercised the novelist's true function of revealing character by uncovering the secret places of the heart, and had revealed Cosima as the... |
Reception | Leonora Carrington | André Breton
was an early admirer of the story and included The Debutante in Anthology of Black Humour, an edited collection first published in 1939 but suppressed until 1945 because the Nazi
-compliant Vichy... |
Author summary | Phyllis Bottome | PB
was a prolific novelist who published over fifty works in approximately sixty years. Her two best-known works, Private Worlds and The Mortal Storm, were made into popular American films. In addition to novels,... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | 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. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 135 |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | |
politics | Gertrude Stein | |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | 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... |
politics | Violet Hunt | VH
's biographer Barbara Belford
notes that at the end of her life, Hunt took little interest in current affairs, including the threat of Nazism
. Instead, she was consumed with plans for her literary... |
politics | Hannah Arendt | During her first marriage, HA
criticised the German women's movement for interesting itself in social, or women's issues without considering the broader political causes and consequences which made them of concern to men as well... |
politics | Nancy Cunard | Talking to Cunard in London during the war, Cecily Mackworth
reported: I could feel her contained rage, like a saucepan about to boil over. Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet. 43 |
politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Although there was no tradition of political involvement in either of their family backgrounds, STW
and Valentine Ackland became politically active because of events in Europe. They were particularly impelled to action by the Reichstag... |
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