Rosa Luxemburg

By late 1929 Tillie Lerner met Abraham Jevons Goldfarb , a radical writer who was like herself the child of Russian Jewish immigrants to the USA. She ran away with him after her eighteenth birthday...

Her mother, born Martha Cohn , was the daughter of Jacob Cohn, who made a great deal of money importing tea. Martha was responsible for HA 's upbringing, which she recorded in a book entitled...

In the title piece a boat pulled up out of the water awaits repair and refitting: it's a time-of-life thing, / it's a waiting game. One reviewer observed that nature, in Jamie's work, is unsettling...

PG adapted two plays by French women for a performance at the Soho Poly this year: My Name is Rosa Luxemburg, adapted from Marianne Auricost , and The Rivers and Forests, adapted from Marguerite Duras .

She followed it with Love Letters: An Anthology, dedicated to Harold Pinter and published in later 1976. Writing about this book in the Times on 6 November that year, AF noted that she...

This volume's title and epigraph are taken from The Great Gatsby. Like AR 's other works, Dark Fields of the Republic reflects a diverse group of artistic and social influences, which include the Bible...

PG structured the play in short scenes she refers to as takes or condensed fragments, because she felt that contemporary audiences, being reared on film and television, responded in a synaptic way to material...

Authors or politicians whom HA wrote about in articles, reviews, or editions (excluding those essays reprinted in Men in Dark Times) include Konrad Adenauer , W. H. Auden , Wilhelm Dilthey , Waldemar Gurian

Dark times is a phrase from Brecht . It is almost synonymous here with the twentieth century, though HA has a piece on Lessing , who lived two centuries earlier. She uses men to signify...