Adolf Hitler

In March and April 1936 VW had a period of threatened breakdown. This was a time of overwork against the clock (not uncommon in her professional life), of the visible political threat of Hitler (who...

It is much remarked that VW referred to Leonard as a penniless Jew. Was she anti-semitic? She married a Jew in an anti-semitic culture, and she wrote to him candidly before they were married...

This novel seems like a prophecy of the Nazi rise: Hitler had already led the failed Beer Hall Putsch, and had written Mein Kampf during the resultant prison sentence. The protagonist, Friederich (Fritz) Storm...

AWE was gathering signatures for a letter to Edvard Benes , President of Czechoslovakia, about Chamberlain 's betrayal of Czech democracy in face of the threat from Hitler .

In June 1938 she drew up, along with seven other women, a manifesto for The League for the Protection of the Imagination of Women. The League's feminist mandate was to stimulate original work...

The manifesto masks its serious political content with a certain tongue-in-cheek tone: We do not like the way Mussolini has organised his colonial empire. / We do not like the way Hitler has managed his...

The trip (with another taken by Sidney in 1934) reversed the Webbs' previous opinions of Soviet communism, which they had hitherto (before rising mass unemployment and increasing de-regulation destroyed their faith in the potential improvement...

After Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich peace agreement with Hitler on 29 September 1938, the Labour Party's continued support of the government provoked HSW to resign, with a speech criticising the party's ideology...

Although there was no tradition of political involvement in either of their family backgrounds, STW and Valentine Ackland became politically active because of events in Europe. They were particularly impelled to action by the Reichstag...

HW wrote that the fudging of national relations with Hitler at the Munich crisis poisoned me body and spirit. After Poland fell to the Nazis (who took Warsaw on 27 September 1939), HW sent...

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...

She was cremated and buried first at Lincoln Fort Cemetery in Washington, DC. In 1947 she was re-interred beside her brother Sydney in St Margaret's Church in Tyler's Green, near Penn, in Buckinghamshire...

By the 1930s AU 's politics had become fervently patriotric: she was a firm supporter of Ramsay MacDonald 's National Coalition Government, elected on 26 August 1931. Over the next few years her dread of...

In her Foreword, UT promises, as if a court of law, to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. She begins by sketching Hall's family history and her family...

UT , who devoted herself to Hall's writing career both during her life and after her death, provides detailed descriptions of Hall's writing habits, patterns, and schedules. Their days, she writes, comprised [w]riting, reading, dictating...