Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Nancy Mitford | Three of NM
's sisters took up extreme political positions in the 1930s. Diana
, the third in age, left her first marriage to be with Sir Oswald Mosley
, leader of the British Union of Fascists |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amabel Williams-Ellis | Amabel's elder brother, Tom, died of pneumonia when she was twelve. Her younger brother, (Evelyn) John St Loe Strachey
, born in 1901, became a well-known public figure. During his political career he served as... |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | The following year Lowndes
stayed with Trefusis at West Coker Manor. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971. 273 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amabel Williams-Ellis | This work was shaped by her observations at Independent Labour Party
summer schools; she incorporates portraits of her then-colleagues the future Fascist Oswald Mosley
and Labour leader Aneurin Bevan
. The novel is concerned with... |
Occupation | Maude Royden | In June 1921, they moved the Fellowship Services to the Guildhouse, Eccleston Square, where MR
continued to preach until she resigned in December 1936. She resigned because, she said, I have to choose; and... |
politics | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
disliked the term feminist, though many of her socially nonconforming attitudes would attract that term today. She supported the fight for Radclyffe Hall
's Well of Loneliness. She did not involve herself... |
politics | Doreen Wallace | It seems that Doreen's father, who came to support the family during this crisis, summoned the BUF, who for their part understood the value of publicity in a populist cause. Oswald Mosley
, too, had... |
Reception | Nancy Mitford | Oswald Mosley
banned his sister-in-law from his home after this novel. Knight, India. “Nit, Sick, and Bore”. London Review of Books, 3 Jan. 2002, pp. 25-6. 25 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Winifred Holtby | Set in the immediate future, the play imagines the rise of a Fascist dictatorship in England. It satirises English Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley
and contemporary European dictatorships as part of its scathing critique of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Aldous Huxley | Some critics consider this AH
's finest work, a point of intersection between his social satires and his portraits of cynical characters who eventually journey to mysticism. It has an epigraph from Fulke Greville
about... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Nancy Mitford |
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