It was, however, the second son, Maurice
, who proved their father's favourite, and his status affected his treatment of his younger sisters. Sylvia writes of him as a plump little boy with rosy cheeks...
Friends, Associates
Mary McCarthy
MMC
's long-term friendships included those with Edmund Wilson
(even after their divorce) and Hannah Arendt
. She attracted notoriety for her falling-out with Lillian Hellman
, a leading playwright who began to publish memoirs...
Textual Production
Christina Stead
She had been working on this novel, originally titled Mrs Trollope and Madame Blaise, in the early 1950s. Her New York agent, Helen Strauss
, was pessimistic from the first about placing it, and...
Timeline
May 1811: Two teachers in Elgin in Scotland, Miss Woods...
Building item
May 1811
Two teachers in Elgin in Scotland, Miss Woods
and Miss Pirie
, sued for libel the grandmother of a pupil who had accused them of lesbian behaviour.
Moore, Lisa L. Dangerous Intimacies: Towards a Sapphic History of the British Novel. Duke University Press, 1997.
78-82
1932: US poet Archibald MacLeish won the Pulitzer...
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1932
US poet Archibald MacLeish
won the Pulitzer Prize for his epic poem Conquistador, which traces the journey taken by Cortez
through Mexico.
20 November 1934: Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, a...
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20 November 1934
Lillian Hellman
's The Children's Hour, a play in which schoolgirls accuse teachers of having a lesbian relationship, opened on Broadway, New York.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
20 November 2008
15 February 1939: Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes opened...
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15 February 1939
Lillian Hellman
's play The Little Foxes opened on Broadway, in a production that ran for a year and was followed by a film in 1941 with Hellman's screenplay.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
15 February 2011
1 April 1941: With the Second World War more than eighteen...
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1 April 1941
With the Second World War more than eighteen months old and the USA still neutral, Lillian Hellman
's drama The Watch on the Rhine opened on Broadway.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
1 April 2008
September 1947: The US House Committee for Un-American Activities...
National or international item
September 1947
The USHouse Committee for Un-American Activities
(HUAC) began issuing subpoenas to leading figures in the entertainment industry, three years before the communist witch-hunting of Senator Joseph McCarthy
made him a household name.