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politics | Dora Marsden | In an episode that became famous in suffragette annals, Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 38 Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 38-9 |
politics | Alison Uttley | AU
looked on the election of the post-war socialist government (26 July 1945) as a personal betrayal of the war leader Churchill
. As years passed she became increasingly Conservative, Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph. 181, 204 |
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... |
politics | Lady Margaret Sackville | UDC activities played an important role in the decline of the Liberal Party
and the rise of the Labour Party
: Joining the UDC became a sort of half-way house between leaving the Liberals and... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
was even-handed in her actions. During the same year she outspokenly criticised Labour
idol Aneurin Bevan
for what she regarded as a childish display of machismo in irrelevant point-scoring against Churchill
. She accused... |
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. 115 |
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... |
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. 1 |
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... |
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. 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... |
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 |
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 | 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. 288 |
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