Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
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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 |
Publishing | Wyndham Lewis | Time and Tide commissioned WL
to write a series of articles on Adolf Hitler
. These led Lewis to produce a volume, Hitler, 1931, of praise for this alleged Man of Peace. It dismisses Hitler's anti-Semitism. Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983, 2 vols. 316 |
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... |
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 |
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 |
Residence | Phyllis Bottome | |
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 | 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 | 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 |
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... |
Textual Features | Mona Caird | |
Textual Features | Jan Morris | Here Hitlerhas made Oxford his British capital (as historically he intended to do), with his headquarters at Christ Church(James Morris's old college)... |
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