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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 |
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... |
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 | 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 | 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)... |
Textual Features | Agatha Christie | Among its most fascinating contents is The Capture of Cerberus, an unpublished story dating from 1939, which includes barely disguised version of Adolf Hitler
: a curious and disturbing relic, as a reviewer called it. Sperlinger, Tom. “Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks, By John Curran”. The Independent, 6 Sept. 2009. |
Textual Features | Romer Wilson | 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... |
Textual Features | Jennifer Johnston | Johnston goes on to represent the gulf dividing old from young and class from class by telling her story in several voices: Minnie's stream of consciousness, that of her uncle (Money draining away. Wastepaper... |
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