Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
193-4, 208, 210
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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... |
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... |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | In 1929 and again in 1930 she was a member of the British Delegation to the League of Nations
Assembly in Geneva (one of two women delegates sent by Britain), where her most exciting assignment... |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | |
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 |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
embarked on the arduous practice of lecture tours, the great resource of the intellectual unemployed, from New York in 1923. She pursued it on many later tours. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 225 |
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... |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | SJ
published the novel Then We Shall Hear Singing: A Fantasy in C Major, a dystopian yet optimistic fiction set in a post-war, NaziCzechoslovakia. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (31 October 1942): Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research. 36: 71 |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | |
politics | Storm Jameson | In 1935 SJ
's thoughts were turning even more sharply toward the fearful certainty of another war: in her autobiography she describes her awareness of this certainty flicker[ing] continuously, just below the horizon, a lightning... |
Literary responses | Storm Jameson | This text delivered a final blow to SJ
's long and close friendship with Vera Brittain
(who had dedicated her political England's Hour to Jameson only that February). Not only did Brittain remain a staunch... |
Cultural formation | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | |
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... |
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... |
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