Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976.
93, 96
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Cultural formation | Denise Levertov | Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England
, where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and... |
Friends, Associates | Naomi Jacob | NJ
wrote a letter of appreciation to Radclyffe Hall
after The Well of Loneliness appeared in 1928. In January the following year she met Hall and Una Troubridge
when the former lectured in Southend (though... |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | VT
had a one-off audience with Mussolini
in Rome. Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976. 93, 96 Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian. Don’t Look Round. Hutchinson, 1953. 121 |
Friends, Associates | Rosita Forbes | RF
's earliest travelling companion, Armorel Meinertzhagen
, became her good friend. Forbes made personal contacts easily, and exacted help on the road from all sorts of highly unlikely individuals, one of them Benito Mussolini |
Literary Setting | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | The Sam Mogford of this book is encountered in the opening chapter in a boarding-house in Italy (Mussolini
's Italy), seen as a typical Englishman through the eyes of Carlo, an Italian Anglophile. Carlo... |
Occupation | Una Marson | UM
was one of a very large crowd that gathered at Waterloo Station to greet the Emperor Haile Selassie
on his arrival in London as an exile shortly after his surrender to Mussolini
's Italian troops. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998. 101 |
politics | Anna Wickham | In June 1938 she drew up, along with seven other women, a manifesto for The League for the Protection of the Imagination of Women. Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, pp. 1-48. 27 |
politics | Naomi Jacob | She later entered municipal politics in the London borough of Marylebone, making an impassioned speech in support of the Socialist candidate. After that she was adopted as candidate for several elections herself, but was... |
politics | Naomi Jacob | |
politics | Natalie Clifford Barney | Abandoning her formerly held pacifist views, NCB
supported Mussolini
and the Fascists. In 1940 she presented Ezra Pound
with a radio and a letter praising Lord Ha Ha
's pro-Nazi broadcasts for their exceptionally far-sweeping... |
politics | Violet Trefusis | VT
associated herself with women deeply involved in wartime activities, and specifically (despite her pre-war visit to Mussolini
) with anti-Nazi events. For instance, her former house-guest Hélène Terré
worked for the Red Cross
in... |
politics | Bryher | Closely following global events from the rise of Mussolini
through the politics of Appeasement, and juxtaposing such movements against her historical knowledge, Bryher saw World War II both as infuriatingly predictable and as avoidable. Bryher,. The Heart to Artemis: A Writer’s Memoirs. Collins, 1963. 230-1, 276-7 |
politics | George Egerton | As momentum began building towards World War Two she seems to have felt that her convictions about humanity's obsession with power and war had been verified. Humanity never really changes and would revert to savagery... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | As the political climate moved increasingly towards war, ER
advocated League of Nations
sanctions against Mussolini
's Italy (with the threat of force), as well as a closer relationship between Britain and the USSR in... |
politics | Ezra Pound | EP
, who had become a supporter of Mussolini
's Fascist state, began making regular radio broadcasts on Rome Radio to America which were both antisemitic and condemnatory of President Roosevelt
. Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1. xxv “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
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