Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research.
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politics | Evelyn Sharp | In 1931 ES
was alarmed by the economic situation (which, after a glimmer of prosperity, threatened to plunge Germany back into deprivation) but much more by the rise of Hitler
ism and the young storm-troops... |
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... |
politics | George Egerton | In the postwar years GE
seems also to have grown somewhat disillusioned with British politics in general. During the General Strike (which began on 3 May 1926) she wrote in her diary, I am convinced... |
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 |
politics | Alison Uttley | 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... |
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 | Willa Muir | Nevertheless, after their experience in Budapest, where the reality of Hitler
's growing power was ubiquitous and inescapable, the Muirs retreated from politics altogether, being revolted by the lust for dominance with its political fevers... |
politics | Helen Waddell | |
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 | Phyllis Bottome | With the support of British authorities, PB
used her lectures to promote her political views and to encourage Americans to support the Allies in the war against Nazi Germany. At the end of the tour... |
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... |
Author summary | Wyndham Lewis | WL
was an early twentieth-century artist and writer: novelist, poet, playwright, periodical editor, commentator on literature and society, and above all a satirist and lampooner of many of his contemporaries. He was the leading spirit... |
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... |
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