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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Rosita Forbes | This book concentrates on those of the princely states which RF
had visited (the majority) and their often highly characterful as well as flamboyantly wealthy rulers. Relying mostly on her own experience, with some digressions... |
Travel | Rosita Forbes | RF
left Russia by way of Finland, and later the same year she flew to Germany to interview Hitler
. In the autumn, still in 1933, she was back again lecturing in the USA... |
politics | Rosita Forbes | It was something of a coup for RF
in June 1933 to interview Hitler
, who had come to power on the crest of a new generation's resentment. Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell. 304 |
politics | Rosita Forbes | RF
had been patriotically outraged at the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935 (which was presented as saving the country from British imperialism). Forbes, Rosita. Appointment with Destiny. Cassell. 12 |
politics | Rosita Forbes | RF
's patriotism has been called in question, however, not so much because she spent much of the war in North America and the Caribbean, but because early in the war she chose to... |
Literary Setting | Jane Gardam | The time is one of hiatus: the war is over, but rationing continues and personal damage to the bereaved and the survivors is only beginning to be assessed. The future is opaque. The book opens... |
Textual Production | Karen Gershon | KG
published The Bread of Exile, a novel with a strong autobiographical foundation, which traces the young lives of a brother and sister who come as Jewish refugee children to England from Hitler
's Germany. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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. |
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, p. 27. 27 |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | These were, however, very unhappy years for MAH
politically. She hated the blindness of British governments since 1931 towards the meaning of Hitler
and Hitlerism and their policy of appeasement. She also felt that the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucille Iremonger | Here LI
expands on what in The Fiery Chariot she called the Phaeton Personality, not among politicians only but among others who strive to reach the summits of ambition. Her case-studies of early emotional... |
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 |
politics | Storm Jameson | Jameson described the 1933 Labour
Conference at Hastings as haunted by the ghost of German Social Democracy, in the shape usually of a young doctor or lawyer, with a pale intelligent face, and no money... |
politics | Storm Jameson | In 1935 SJ
's thoughts were turning even more sharply toward the fearful certainty of another war: in her autobiography she describes her awareness of this certainty flicker[ing] continuously, just below the horizon, a lightning... |
politics | Storm Jameson | Not only were SJ
's books banned at an early point in Hitler
's regime; she was also named in the Gestapo's Black Book of about 1940 for her anti-Nazi activities before and during the war. Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research. 36: 72 |
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