Chandos, Oliver Lyttelton, first Viscount. The Memoirs of Lord Chandos. Bodley Head, 1962.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Bridge | At that time the Foreign Office, working in London, was distinct from the Diplomatic Service
, working abroad. It was not until after the First World War that Owen O'Malley became a diplomat overseas. He... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Lyttelton | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Una Troubridge | UT
later said of her marriage: Almost before I knew it I was grown-up. qtd. in Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985. 39 |
Friends, Associates | Flora Shaw | Joseph Chamberlain
and Winston Churchill
were among the many visitors who were received at Abinger by the Lugards. Bell, E. Moberly. Flora Shaw. Constable, 1947. 288 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cholmondeley | According to Percy Lubbock
, MC
and her sisters entertained often and were charming and successful hostesses. Mary was nevertheless said to be a shy and modest woman who, while she found writing tedious, enjoyed... |
Friends, Associates | Alice Meynell | Following her early conquest of Tennyson
, AM
went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan
, Aubrey Beardsley
(while he... |
Friends, Associates | Katherine Cecil Thurston | Through these social engagements, KCT
came into contact with several significant figures of the day. At a dinner given by Colonel George Harvey
, for instance, she probably met Mr
and Mrs Winston Churchill
... |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Galsworthy | The production directly affected government policy: Winston Churchill
(then Home Secretary) saw the play, and in a conversation with JG
agreed to apply the punishment of solitary confinement more sparingly, and for shorter periods. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 10 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 34 Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996. 261 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maya Angelou | On the glamorous idea of touring with a show in Europe, MA
writes that her images of London came from Dickens
and Winston Churchill
, her images of Paris from Guy de Maupassant
, and... |
Literary responses | Jan Struther | The head of the United States Office of War Information
called for this movie to be immediately and widely released. Roosevelt
, already an admirer of the book, joined in the rapturous reception of the... |
Literary Setting | Muriel Spark | It is set long ago in 1945, when all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions. Spark, Muriel. The Girls of Slender Means. Macmillan, 1963. 1 |
Occupation | Barbara Cartland | She began her writing career as a gossip columnist for the Daily Express in 1923. She was soon noticed by her first employer, Lord Beaverbrook
, and by his friends Winston Churchill
, F. E. Smith |
Occupation | Barbara Cartland | BC
shared her brothers' strong endorsement of Britain's active role in the Second World War (all three were acquaintanced with Winston Churchill
). She threw herself into war work. Welfare Officers were charged with everything... |
Occupation | Christopher St John | Living in London, CSJ
became by 1899 secretary to Lady Randolph Churchill
and her son Winston
. She was at this point also beginning work on her first novel. Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago, 1981. 115 |