Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
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Publishing | Phyllis Bottome | The BBC approached Bottome to write propaganda to help entice America into war because of the popularity of her novels in the United States. Her script uses Disney
cartoon characters to depict the two... |
Publishing | Enid Bagnold | EB
published an inflammatory article in the Sunday Times under the headline In Germany Today—Hitler
's New Form of Democracy. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 139 |
Publishing | Phyllis Bentley | PB
published in the Yorkshire Post an open letter, Creed of a Writer, which attacks the Munich peace agreement with Hitler
which had just been signed by Neville Chamberlain
. Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research, 1998. 26 |
Reception | Stella Gibbons | A copy of the German translation of the novel made by Fritz Pick
was presented to Hitler
as part of an effort to improve relations between England and Germany. Taylor, David John. “Loam and Lovechild”. Times Literary Supplement, 21 Aug. 1998, p. 27. 27 |
Reception | Naomi Jacob | The Times Literary Supplement judged this a powerful and deftly constructed study, shot with a fine poetic quality and exhibiting a deep understanding of a troubled soul. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (18 April 1935): 256 |
Reception | Ann Bridge | AB
arrived in Hungary in 1940 to find that two of her novels had just been translated into Magyar, and the publishers had waited until she got there to provide window displays with photographs for... |
Residence | Phyllis Bottome | |
Residence | Elma Napier | EN
's family spent summers at the family estate of Gordonstoun, near Elgin, and winters at another estate seventeen miles away, Altyre at Forres. The family's third estate, Dallas, or Torchastle... |
Residence | Margaret Kennedy | After Hitler
's victory over Austria in the Anschluss that March, MK
moved her family to their holiday home at Hendre Hall in Wales, where they sought refuge intermittently throughout the war. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 141 |
Textual Features | Elaine Feinstein | This novel is an extraordinary tour de force in taking Lawrence's patterns of thought and speech to write a refutation, through a female narrator (his protagonist herself), of his sexual theories. EF
traces forwards both... |
Textual Features | Karen Gershon | The father of the central figure may have been a Jew, or conversely may have been Hitler
. Behind the individual story lie powerfully rendered conflicted issues of identity and responsibility. |
Textual Features | Helen Waddell | This collection, wrote Waddell as translator, had no academic justification: it is arbitrary and unrepresentative of any author, or of any age. It reflected her despair during the months when the Second World War ceased... |
Textual Features | Cecily Mackworth | Arriving in Israel just after a Jewish terrorist attackCM
reports how she found the streets of Jerusalem full of tense, trigger-happy young British soldiers. Gershon Agronsky
, editor of the Palestine Post, Mackworth, Cecily. The Mouth of the Sword. Routledge and K. Paul, 1949. 34 |
Textual Features | Rose Allatini | The protagonist here, Franz Ferdinand Ebermann of the London firm of Fawcett and Ebermann, is another Jew with a far-flung family. His Viennese cousins and their ilk, professors' daughters or bank managers' widows or proprietors... |
Textual Features | Una Troubridge | In her Foreword, UT
promises, as if a court of law, to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Troubridge, Una. The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall. Hammond, Hammond, 1961. 5 |
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