Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976.
93, 96
Benito Mussolini
Standard Name: Mussolini, Benito
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. 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 | 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 | 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 | |
| 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. |
Timeline
24 April 1919: The Italian delegates to the Paris Peace...
National or international item
24 April 1919
The Italian delegates to the Paris Peace Conference, Vittorio Orlando
and Sidney Sonnino
, walked out in protest at the allocation of the city of Fiume to Yugoslavia.
MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919. Random House, 2003.
299-305
28-30 October 1922: Mussolini, leader of Italy's Fascists, stayed...
National or international item
28-30 October 1922
Mussolini
, leader of Italy's Fascists
, stayed in the background during his party's so-called March on Rome, then arrived in Rome to speak with the king, Victor Emmanuel III
.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
12
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
235
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978. II: 159
“Italy History Timeline & Facts”. Facts About . . . : Facts About World History, Timelines & Events.
1927: Josephine Ward published a fiction about...
Women writers item
1927
Josephine Ward
published a fiction about the early twentieth-century Italian dictator: The Shadow of Mussolini.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
under Benito Mussolini
11 February 1929: Mussolini signed the Lateran Treaty, or Concordat...
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11 February 1929
Mussolini
signed the Lateran Treaty, or Concordat with the Pope
: this gave sanction to the Fascist
regime in Italy, and set up the independent microstate of Vatican City in Rome.
Johnson, Richard William. “I’m all for it”. London Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2000, pp. 11-12.
11
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
“12 February 1929. Fascism and the Vatican”. Guardian Weekly, 12 Feb. 2016, p. 22.
January 1932: Oswald Mosley, leader of the recent, short-lived...
National or international item
January 1932
Oswald Mosley
, leader of the recent, short-lived British New Party
, made a visit to Mussolini
in Italy.
Bradshaw, David. “Mrs. Dalloway’s Forgotten Fronts: Figuring the War and Memorializing the Dead”. Voyages Out, Voyages Home: The Eleventh Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Bangor, 15 June 2001.
Mid-February 1934: Martial law was declared in Vienna following...
National or international item
Mid-February 1934
Martial law was declared in Vienna following Nazi terrorist incidents, a demonstration of peasants in support of the coalition government of Engelbert Dollfuss
, and the taking up of arms by Socialists.
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora, 1992.
98-9
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
9 June 1933: 13; 14 February 1934: 12
From 5 December 1934: Italy (under Mussolini) sent troops to Africa,...
National or international item
From 5 December 1934
Italy (under Mussolini
) sent troops to Africa, where sporadic fighting heralded its colonial invasion of Ethiopia.
Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press, 1987.
221
3 October 1935-9 May 1936: Italy (ruled by Benito Mussolini) invaded...
National or international item
3 October 1935-9 May 1936
Italy (ruled by Benito Mussolini
) invaded Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia).
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
16
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
2-3, 23
3 October 1935-9 May 1936: Italy (ruled by Benito Mussolini) invaded...
National or international item
3 October 1935-9 May 1936
Italy (ruled by Benito Mussolini
) invaded Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia).
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
16
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
2-3, 23
18 December 1935: The Hoare-Laval Pact (appeasement of recent...
National or international item
18 December 1935
The Hoare-Laval Pact (appeasement of recent territorial aggression by Mussolini
's Italy) was sealed. It enraged Britons to such an extent that Samuel Hoare
was compelled to retire from politics.
Thomson, David, and Geoffrey Warner. England in the Twentieth Century, 1914-1979. 2nd ed., Penguin Books, 1981.
154
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
380
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
291
Early May 1936: The Italo-Abyssinian War ended with Mussolini's...
National or international item
Early May 1936
The Italo-Abyssinian War ended with Mussolini
's proclamation of Italy's annexation of Abyssinia (today called Ethiopia).
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
126-8
Thomson, David, and Geoffrey Warner. England in the Twentieth Century, 1914-1979. 2nd ed., Penguin Books, 1981.
163
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
16
The Penguin Atlas of the World. Viking, 1987.
159
Diametrically opposed views of the conflict were voiced by British writers Kathleen E. Innes
and...
7 April 1939: Italy under Mussolini further pursued its...
National or international item
7 April 1939
Italy under Mussolini
further pursued its expansionist policy by invading Albania.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
19
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
26
10 June 1940: Mussolini's Italy declared war on the allied...
National or international item
10 June 1940
Mussolini
's Italy declared war on the allied powers (though Italy had been Britain's ally in the First World War).
Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins, 1996.
128
25 July 1943: The Italian Fascist Grand Council imprisoned...
National or international item
25 July 1943
The Italian Fascist Grand Council imprisoned Benito Mussolini
.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
149
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
349-50
9 September 1943: Following the fall of Benito Mussolini, Allied...
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9 September 1943
Following the fall of Benito Mussolini
, Allied troops landed at Salerno in Italy.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
152-3
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
350
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