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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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ray Strachey | |
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 |
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'... |
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 |
Employer | Ruth Pitter | During the first world war RP
went to work as a temporary junior clerk at the War Office
. The only part of this job she enjoyed was brewing the tea for fifty people. (She... |
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... |
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 | 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... |
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 |
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 | Isabella Kelly | Her son William Martin Kelly
turned out a disappointment. A recent biographer of Matthew Lewis
discounts stories that William's relationship with his patron was sexual. William, however, appears to have suffered, in typical young-gentleman fashion... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Godley | John Godley, who was a friend of Charlotte's brother Charles
, was born in Ireland on 29 May 1814, most likely at Dublin. He was the son of an Irish landowner, whose family home... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosita Forbes | RF
married as her second husband Arthur Thomas McGrath
, another colonel, then on the War Office
general staff. She wore black for the wedding, in mourning for Rosita Forbes, but she kept her... |
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