Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
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Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | Among those drafted to form the Mandate's Honorary Council in Britain were prominent politicians, clergy, feminists, and writers such as Margaret Ashton
, Margaret Bondfield
, Vera Brittain
, Arthur Henderson
, Laurence Housman
,... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 74 |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Grand | During the war SG
met William
and Rachel Mary Tindall
, Quakers who became close friends of hers. She also met and lunched with Thomas Hardy
and Siegfried Sassoon
. Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press. 118-19 |
Friends, Associates | Rumer Godden | RG
preserved her friendship with the director Jean Renoir
from the time that he filmed her novel The River. After moving to Highgate she became friendly with the writer Stevie Smith
(whom she calls... |
Textual Production | Rumer Godden | RG
wrote part of this novel in a caravan after her house burned down. She worked on it for five years, and her new part-time secretary retyped it many times. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan. 253-4 |
Publishing | E. M. Forster | The genesis of this novel probably dates from a visit which EMF
made in September 1913 to the socialist and homosexual activist Edward Carpenter
, whose lifelong campaign against prejudice and inequity were an inspiration... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elaine Feinstein | Subjects of poems here include Dickens
, Thomas
and |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Among the many poets gathered here, inescapable choices like Wilfred Owen
, Siegfried Sassoon
, Isaac Rosenberg
, and Robert Graves
rub shoulders with the unexpected, like Cynthia Asquith
, Sarojini Naidu
, and Gertrude Stein
. |
Friends, Associates | Frances Cornford | FC
also developed friendships, although not close ones, with Walter de la Mare
, Eric Gill
, Bertrand Russell
, Siegfried Sassoon
, Ralph
and Ursula Vaughan Williams,
and Virginia Woolf
. Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxxv |
Reception | May Cannan | Bevil Quiller-Couch
wrote that of the books he had read at the Front (more books than during the rest of my life, Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. The Tears of War. Editor Fyfe, Charlotte, Cavalier Books. 67 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vera Brittain | She originally planned to write a novel based on her wartime experiences, but in November 1929, after having read the war memoirs of Edmund Blunden
, Siegfried Sassoon
, and Robert Graves
, she began... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pat Barker | Barker opens with the text of Finished with the War, A Soldier's Declaration, issued in July 1917 by the writer Siegfried Sassoon
, one of her real-life characters. Barker, Pat. Regeneration. Viking-Penguin. 3, 71 |
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