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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Textual Features | Edith Mary Moore | EMM
dedicated this book to her daughter, Edris. It has no paratext; and makes no mention of the fact that its protagonist, one of our civilian soldier boys, is modelled on the author's son Edward Lovell Moore |
Textual Features | Edith Mary Moore | EMM
's early treatment of the Great War is enthusiastic: The greatest epic of history had begun. Moore, Edith Mary. Teddy R.N.D. Hodder and Stoughton. 123 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jan Morris | |
Publishing | Mollie Panter-Downes | Her best-known journalism remains her lucid, sensitive reports on the political and physical violence inflicted by the Second World War on Britons' daily lives, but she continued her letters from London until 1984, by which... |
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... |
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 |
Textual Production | Eleanor Rathbone | In Spring 1936, ER
had published a letter in the Manchester Guardian on the reality, and consequent dangers, of German rearmament and the failings of the Treaty of Versailles. This letter prompted a private... |
Reception | Eleanor Rathbone | During ER
's lifetime the leaders of both major political parties, Winston Churchill
and Clement Attlee
(whose regard for her was equally high), repeatedly urged her to accept honours of various kinds, but she refused... |
Textual Production | Dora Russell | Her first assignment for this paper was on the celebration of Winston Churchill
's seventieth birthday. Her primary work for it was as a science editor, in which capacity she wrote articles on the ethics... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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