Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Rebecca West | Sketches of writers, artists, politicians, and public figures in the collection include Clemence Dane
, Joseph Conrad
, Lloyd George
, and Winston Churchill
. Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library. 4 |
politics | Dorothy Wellesley | By the time DW
wrote her autobiography she was a nostalgic reactionary, regretting the days of powerful great families in great country houses, when the servants arrived at morning prayers in order of precedence, with... |
politics | Beatrice Webb | The name reflects a panic about national absence of efficiency, a panic aroused by experience in the Second South African War. The club lasted for about five years, meeting at a tavern and numbering among... |
Publishing | Annie S. Swan | Sir William Robertson Nicoll
, friend of ASS
and power behind the The British Weekly: A Journal of Social and Christian Progress (which was published at London by Hodder and Stoughton
), proposed to her... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | G. B. Stern | She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning
's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley
plain? Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery. prelims |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | Later, from 1910 to 1913, she was secretary of the Kensington branch of the WSPU
. She was present (as reported by Violet Hunt
) at the suffrage meeting in the Albert Hall in early... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Evelyn Sharp | She wrote to explain that she was unlikely to be able to supply the paper with leading articles for some time (since she would be in prison), but more importantly to reproach Scott with supporting... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Rathbone | This work was an extension of a declaration released by the press on 31 January 1937. In that declaration, signatories including the Duchess of Atholl
, Winston Churchill
, David Lloyd George
, Robert Cecil |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The couple had met for the first time at Percy Alden
's Canning Town Settlement
in 1899, when Emmeline and Mary Neal had brought the Dramatic Society of the Espérance Working Girls' Club
to Alden's... |
Textual Production | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | MHVR
presented a memorandum from the Women's Industrial League
to PM David Lloyd George
demanding a restructuring of post-war employment policies, to include women in high-paying, skilled industries. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 65-6 |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | The group's agenda was to obtain legislative improvements in child-assault laws, the position of unmarried mothers, equality of both parents in guardianship rights, equal pay for teachers, equal civic service opportunities for women and men... |
politics | Constance Lytton | CL
, with ten other militant suffragettes, was detained after causing a disturbance at a visit of David Lloyd George
to Newcastle. The word suffragette, despite its apparently demeaning diminutive, was at the... |
Textual Features | Ada Leverson | In this novel Valentia Wyburn, another clever woman, has been five years married and has a lover (though their sexual relationship is never particularised) besides her husband. But she breaks with him when she discovers... |
politics | Margaret Kennedy | MK
's marriage to a former secretary for the Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith
(1909-1916) solidified her allegiance to the Liberal party, though she never took an active role in it. (Asquith's term was... |
Friends, Associates | Elinor Glyn | Thnere she met Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George
, who helped to engineer the Versailles Peace Treaty. Her staunchly conservative views made it matter for surprise that she found him much smarter [in appearance]... |
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