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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Toni Morrison | Chloe's mother, born Ramah Willis
, grew up on a farm in Greenville, Alabama; like her husband, she later moved north. She believed firmly in racial equality: her children were entitled to equal rights... |
Friends, Associates | Rosita Forbes | An indefatigable name-dropper, RF
wrote that the greatest, and most sensible, man she had ever met was Kemal Atatürk
; she then bracketed with him Franklin Delano Roosevelt
. Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell, 1944. 55-6 |
Friends, Associates | Rosita Forbes | In FinlandRF
met the national hero Marshal Mannerheim
. Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell, 1944. 302 |
Health | Richmal Crompton | RC
became ill with poliomyelitis. This was before immunization had been developed, and not much was known about the condition. The disease left her without full use of her right leg. Polio was a highly... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jan Struther | The US edition of Mrs. Miniver became a roaring success long before the film was thought of. It was a Book-of-the-Month Club
choice, and the publishers were eager to get JS
to tour America to... |
Literary responses | Jan Struther | The head of the United States Office of War Information
called for this movie to be immediately and widely released. Roosevelt
, already an admirer of the book, joined in the rapturous reception of the... |
Literary responses | Rosita Forbes | The Times Literary Supplement review diagnosed in this book a worship of success. The sketches, it pronounced, were of the lightest kind, admiring, gossippy, inexact—to be candid, somewhat hollow when they are not worse. It... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Christina Stead | By chance House of All Nations (which has been called a mammoth study of the world of international finance) Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Occupation | Eudora Welty | Back home, EW
worked a slew of part-time positions trying to begin a writing career and support herself financially: she resumed her script-writing position at |
Occupation | Jan Struther | The success of JS
in the USA was confirmed when she stayed with President
and Mrs Roosevelt
at the White House. Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray, 2001. 203 |
Occupation | Tillie Olsen | Some of her jobs after leaving highschool were alienatingly bourgeois, like working in an antiquarian bookstore. Other casual paid work was less important in her life than her speaking on behalf of the Young Communist League |
politics | Helen Waddell | |
politics | Jan Struther | Having moved gradually, while in England, into a left-wing position which was not that of her parents or her husband, JS
was a keen Democrat in the USA, and an enthusiastic personal admirer of Roosevelt |
Publishing | Rebecca West | Time and Tide published The New Deal, RW
's series of four reports on American politics, and the historic intervention of F. D. Roosevelt
which was announced on 2 July 1932. Deakin, Motley F. Rebecca West. Twayne, 1980. 77 Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library, 1957. 85 |
Textual Features | Phyllis Bottome |