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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | W. H. Auden | In 1935 WHA
married Erika Mann
(cabaret artist, writer, and daughter of the more famous writer Thomas Mann
), in order to provide her with a British passport, an escape from Nazi Germany, and a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ella K. Maillart | EKM
relates that she travelled with a woman friend who was battling drug addiction. Christina, as she is called in the book (The Cruel Way, unpublished until 1947), was in fact the... |
Friends, Associates | Sybille Bedford | Introduced to Aldous Huxley
and his wife Maria
by the South African poet Roy Campbell
while at Sanary, the young SB
became their intimate friend. Bedford, Sybille. Quicksands. Counterpoint, 2005. 249-50 |
Friends, Associates | Ann Bridge | AB
's correspondents included Ka Arnold-Foster
, John Betjeman
, E. M. Forster
, Margaret Haig Rhondda
, Margaret Irwin
, John Masefield
, Naomi Mitchison
, I. A. Richards
, Vita Sackville-West
, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jolley | In Palomino (a story which goes deliberately to extremes) a female doctor, who has been de-registered and imprisoned for murder, falls in love with the daughter of an ex-lover, who is pregnant from an incestuous... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jolley | The narrative voice (a Scottish one, apparently as a kind of joke) is complex and shifting, with irony fed by unstable reference to the central couple (now Muriel and Henry, now Mother and Father, and... |
politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | The organisation was set up in 1935, at the end of the First International Congress of Writers
held in the Salle de la Mutualité in Paris. It proposed to be a more partisan and... |
Residence | Sybille Bedford | Later, after the Reichstag fire in the spring of 1933, distinguished exiles from Nazi Germany, Jews and left-wingers who got out early, began to choose Sanary as their temporary home: Bertolt Brecht
, Thomas Mann |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jolley | EJ
invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert
's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound. Joussen, Ulla. “An Interview with Elizabeth Jolley”. Kunapipi, Vol. 15 , No. 2, 1993, pp. 37-43. 40 |
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