Siegfried Sassoon

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 ,...

Even after this, MR remained active in the peace movement until the outbreak of the second world war. During the 1930s she worked perseveringly for peace in Palestine. When Italy invaded and appropriated Abyssinia...

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...

Bevil Quiller-Couch wrote that of the books he had read at the Front (more books than during the rest of my life, including war novels and war poems), this was the only one...

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 .

Correspondents represented in the volume include Freya Stark , as well as Bernard Shaw , Siegfried Sassoon , and Walter de la Mare . This volume was adapted for television by the BBC in 1988, without crediting VM .

In another selection of poetry some years later, A Private Anthology, 1924, NRS offered a prefatory Apology on her critical opinions and personal experience as a poetry reader. She divided the poems among twelve...

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. She wrote in response...

SJ published a novel entitled Farewell to Youth, about the First World War.

JK 's first volume of poetry published as Makar of Scotland included Threshold (written for the opening of the Scottish parliament in 2016) and was titled from a poem about her grandfather (by adoption, not...

LOM began work on her memoirs in 1919, and returned to them more seriously in 1925. She showed drafts to Mark Gertler , Siegfried Sassoon , Walter Turner , and Virginia Woolf ...

Subjects of poems here include Dickens , Thomas and Jane Carlyle, Siegfried Sassoon , Anna Akhmatova , Bella Akhmadulina , Billie Holliday , and Raymond Chandler . In Betrayal, a reply to Shakespeare