Bottome, Phyllis. The Challenge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Phyllis Bottome | In her second winter at St Moritz, PB
's future fiancé, Ernan Forbes Dennis
, moved into her pension. Like Bottome, Forbes Dennis was a convalescent; he had numerous chest ailments, and his brother... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Phyllis Bottome | After her father died in 1913, PB
's estranged fiancé, Ernan Forbes Dennis
, contacted her through her publishers and suggested in a letter of condolence that they should become reacquainted as friends. Bottome, Phyllis. The Challenge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. 377-8 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Phyllis Bottome | PB
became engaged to Scottish aristocrat Alban Ernan Forbes Dennis
, whom she had met while recovering from a lung ailment at St Moritz. Bottome, Phyllis. The Challenge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. 216-19 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Phyllis Bottome | PB
's and Forbes Dennis
's engagement finally came to an end, and they lost contact for the next few years. Bottome, Phyllis. The Challenge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. 273 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Phyllis Bottome | PB
received a letter from her former fiancé, Forbes Dennis
, proposing that they should get married on his next leave from the front. Bottome, Phyllis. The Challenge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. 400 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Phyllis Bottome | PB
married Ernan Forbes Dennis
at the Mairie in the Apache Quarter in Paris, following this with another civil ceremony at the British Consulate
and a celebration at the Embassy Church
. Bottome, Phyllis. The Challenge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. 405 |
Friends, Associates | Phyllis Bottome | PB
and Forbes Dennis
, driven by their interest in education, became students of Alfred Adler
's Individual Psychology; this led them to lifelong friendship with the psychologist. Bottome, Phyllis. The Goal. Faber and Faber, 1962. 73, 136-40 |
Health | Phyllis Bottome | He also told her he could not promise that she would be able to have a child. Meanwhile he told her fiancé, Ernan Forbes Dennis
, that he for his part would completely recover in... |
Occupation | Phyllis Bottome | PB
and her husband, Ernan Forbes Dennis
, established a school for English and American boys in Kitzbühel, Germany, with the goal of plac[ing] a brick in the invisible structure of World Peace. Bottome, Phyllis. The Goal. Faber and Faber, 1962. 129 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 Lassner, Phyllis. British Women Writiers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own. St Martin’s Press, 1998. 216 |
Occupation | Phyllis Bottome | In 1915, on her way home from a trip to Paris to see Ernan Forbes
, PB
encountered victims of the first gas attacks: they were not really men any more, these tortured boys, but... |
Textual Features | Phyllis Bottome | This book, set in 1938 in Austria, condemns both NaziGermany and aggressive, self-destructive aspects of Austrian and German culture. Lassner, Phyllis. British Women Writiers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own. St Martin’s Press, 1998. 230 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Phyllis Bottome | Early in the book she describes her first diagnosis with a lung infection only weeks after her sister's death. She also discusses her life during the First World War, which included a job as a... |
Travel | Phyllis Bottome | PB
and her husband, Forbes Dennis
, travelled to the United States, where they lectured, conducted negotiations with Bottome's publishers, and visited old friends. Calder, Robert. Beware the British Serpent. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004. 65, 169 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 |
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