Varma, Devendra P., and Isabella Kelly. “Introduction”. The Abbey of St. Asaph, Arno Press, p. v - xxxii.
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Wealth and Poverty | Isabella Kelly | Her husband's death left IK
with only seven shillings in the world, and arrears of (half)-pay which the War Office
never paid. Varma, Devendra P., and Isabella Kelly. “Introduction”. The Abbey of St. Asaph, Arno Press, p. v - xxxii. vi |
Travel | Rosita Forbes | During the summers RF
and her husband would travel together through the European countries which Arthur McGrath
's War Office
job made his particular concern. Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell. 89-90 |
Textual Production | Florence Nightingale | In April 1862 FN
had also engaged in correspondence with the War Office
and with Gladstone
to express her disapproval of any attempts to regulate prostitution. Earlier, in 1860, while a government commission pondered providing... |
Textual Production | Arnold Bennett | AB
's novel Lord Raingo created a commotion because the characters were based on real people in the Ministry of Information
run by the War Office
. Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research. 26 Williams, Orlo. “New Novels: Lord Raingo”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1289, p. 694. 694 |
Textual Features | Jane Williams | A group including Davis was eventually sent to the Barrack Hospital at Scutari. There, however, they were given no work to do beyond mending and sorting linen. Davis describes her impatience at the lack... |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | ES
was sent to Holloway
in London for two weeks for breaking government-office windows in a suffrage demonstration: It pleases me still to remember that the War Office
fell to my pacifist hand. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 140 |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | As the Great War rolled on ES
found herself more and more of a pacifist. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 157 |
Occupation | Rose Macaulay | A year after taking this job she was transferred from the War Office
to the Ministry of Information
, where she worked as a wartime bureaucrat. Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins. 89 Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray. 160-1 |
Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
was among the chief administrators of the Liverpool branch of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Family Association
(SSFA), the War Office
department distributing allowances to the families of enlisted men. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 40 |
Occupation | Muriel Box | As well as writing for film and returning to continuity work, MB
embarked during the Second World War on a career as a director, working at first for Verity Films
. This had been founded... |
Occupation | May Cannan | |
Occupation | Mary Kingsley | Her primary object was to serve the British War Office
as a war nurse. She had also arranged to act as a reporter for the Evening News and the Morning Post, though in practice... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Dorothy Richardson | Aside from all this, Richardson found it difficult to write Dimple Hill because of her illness and breakdown she had suffered from. The summer before the collection was published, a young man renting the Odles'... |
Friends, Associates | Isabella Kelly | Her friends or perhaps patrons included General Henry Seymour Conway
(father of the writer-sculptor Anne Damer
) and his whole family. Kelly, Isabella. A Collection of Poems and Fables. Richardson. 39-40 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Daisy Ashford | DA
's father, William Henry Roxburghe Ashford
(1836-1912), was a former official at the War Office
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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