Benito Mussolini

MS modelled this book around her own teacher, Christina Kay , a character in search of an author. She had begun to write about Miss Kay even as a girl, and her closest schoolfriend,...

Barney's translator Anna Livia describes these memoirs as a combination of war commentary, political theory, and an account of daily life in Fascist Italy. Despite NCB 's insistence that she is apolitical, her loyalties clearly...

The manifesto masks its serious political content with a certain tongue-in-cheek tone: We do not like the way Mussolini has organised his colonial empire. / We do not like the way Hitler has managed his...

The prime minister and foreign minister offered her another free holiday. She had already, however, travelled through High Albania with a pony-train (one of the most wonderful things, she wrote later, in a life full...

Once she had recovered, the Muirs moved back to the Continent, arriving in St Tropez in the spring of 1926. WM later wrote that they were, it seems, turning into Europeans, after all.

In 1938 MS and her husband had thought of going to Vienna on holiday, but Hitler's recent occupation of Austria decided them on Italy instead, which they toured by train. They were in Rome for...

Throughout all the vicissitudes of her life she remained a great traveller. On this occasion, when they put in at Rome, Lord Runciman (RL 's father-in-law) had a private audience with Mussolini and...