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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Phyllis Bottome | PB
edited a collection of speeches published by Penguin
: Our New Order—or Hitler
's? A Selection of Speeches by Winston Churchill
, the Archbishop of Canterbury
, Anthony Eden
, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 |
Textual Features | Phyllis Bottome | |
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... |
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. 55-6 |
Friends, Associates | Rosita Forbes | In FinlandRF
met the national hero Marshal Mannerheim
. Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell. 302 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | She observes that she can write at first hand about most of the men who—to-day—are making war, or struggling to prevent it in three continents. Charques, Richard Denis. “Admirer with a Notebook”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1992, p. 166. 166 |
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... |
Textual Production | Rosita Forbes | RF
published another travel book with elements of biography: The Prodigious Caribbean: Columbus
to Roosevelt. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2025 (23 November 1940): 588 Mavrogordato, E. E. “Rosita Forbes in the Caribbean”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2029, p. 644. 644 |
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... |
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 |
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. |
Textual Production | Lesley Storm | LS
's next play, Great Day, which opened on Broadway at the Playhouse Theatre
on 14 March 1945, grew out of her journalism dealing with Eleanor Roosevelt
's war-time visit to England in October... |
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. 203 |
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 |
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... |