Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988.
Anthony Eden
Standard Name: Eden, Anthony
Used Form: Anthony Eden, first Earl of Avon
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Eden | |
Friends, Associates | Lilian Bowes Lyon | It was here that she brought Queen Elizabeth (later known as the Queen Mother
) and Anthony Eden
(then Foreign Secretary) Day, James Wentworth. The Queen Mother’s Family Story. Robert Hale, 1967. 123 Day, James Wentworth. The Queen Mother’s Family Story. Robert Hale, 1967. 120 |
Occupation | Lilian Bowes Lyon | In London LBL
nursed the wounded during the First World War, then took up social activism. She was for years the head of the Women's Voluntary Service
. During the Second World War, while keeping... |
Occupation | Jan Morris | While studying and writing for the student newspaper, Cherwell, Morris also established contact with The Times, then took a job as a sub-editor and junior leader-writer, then as foreign correspondent with the newspaper... |
politics | Alison Uttley | |
Textual Features | Emily Eden | Addressed to people like her elder sister and her friend Pamela Fitzgerald, later Lady Campbell
, the printed letters have sparkle although they lack the exotic-travel appeal of her letters already in print. Anthony Eden |
Textual Production | Phyllis Bottome | PB
edited a collection of speeches published by Penguin
: Our New Order—or Hitler
's? A Selection of Speeches by Winston Churchill
, the Archbishop of Canterbury
, Anthony Eden
, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 |
Timeline
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
July 1944: British Jews appealed to the government on...
Building item
July 1944
British Jews appealed to the government on behalf of Jews in Hungary; Herbert Morrison
told Anthony Eden
that nothing must be done that would result in receiving more refugees.
Guttenplan, D. D. “Visa Requirement”. London Review of Books, 6 July 2000, pp. 28-9.
28
June 1952: Anthony Eden, then Foreign Secretary, admitted...
National or international item
June 1952
Anthony Eden
, then Foreign Secretary, admitted in Cabinet that the British government's commitments place a burden on the country's economy which it is beyond the resources of the country to meet.
Mount, Ferdinand. “The Doctrine of Unripe Time”. London Review of Books, 16 Nov. 2006, pp. 28-30.
29
6 April 1955: Sir Anthony Eden became Prime Minister and...
National or international item
6 April 1955
Sir Anthony Eden
became Prime Minister and new leader of the Conservative Party
, following Churchill
's resignation.
Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.
36
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491, 408
Autumn 1955: A state of emergency was declared in Cyprus...
National or international item
Autumn 1955
A state of emergency was declared in Cyprus (then a British colony) shortly after British commandos arrived in the island in an attempt to quell the tension between the two resident ethnic communities of Greeks...
1 February 1956: In the Declaration of Washington (one of...
National or international item
1 February 1956
In the Declaration of Washington (one of a number of statements to bear this title), the US President and British Prime Minister pronounced together on relations between the Free World and the Soviet Union.
Robertson, E. Arnot. “Letter to the Editor: Declaration of Washington”. Times, 4 Feb. 1956, p. 7.
7
29 October 1956-22 December 1956: The Suez Crisis occurred: the nationalisation...
National or international item
29 October 1956-22 December 1956
The Suez Crisis occurred: the nationalisation of the Suez Canal by Gamal Abdul Nasser
, President of Egypt, produced a joint invasion of Egypt by Britain, France, and Israel, who feared an interruption of...
3 November 1956: Prime Minister Anthony Eden made one of a...
National or international item
10 January 1957: Harold Macmillan (Conservative) became Prime...
National or international item
10 January 1957
Harold Macmillan
(Conservative) became Prime Minister following Eden
's resignation over the Suez crisis (in which Britain, with France and Israel, invaded Egypt).
Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.
40
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491, 412
Texts
Eden, Anthony, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Two Novels, Victor Gollancz, 1969, pp. 7-20.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer et al. Our New Order—or Hitler’s?. Editor Bottome, Phyllis, Penguin, 1943.