Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Louisa Baldwin | LB
's son Stanley
, who later became Prime Minister, was born. Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 8 |
death | Louisa Baldwin | LB
died quietly of old age after many years as an invalid; her son
was Prime Minister at the time. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler. 181 Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 301-2 |
politics | Louisa Baldwin | LB
was fascinated by politics and followed the Conservative and patriotic line taken by her husband and son. Shortly before her death it was with enormous pleasure that she watched how her son
succeeded in... |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Cartland | BC
delighted in the company of the famous, beautiful, and charming. She frequented the Embassy Club
, as did Michael Arlen
, Cecil Beaton
, Charlie Chaplin
, and Gloria Vanderbilt
, and she counted... |
Textual Features | Storm Jameson | Cousin Honoré is set in Alsace. It begins in December 1918 and moves on to depict the condition of France on the brink of World War II The narrative moves through several other time-periods before... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rudyard Kipling | One of Alice's sisters became a novelist and miscellaneous writer under her married name of Louisa Baldwin
; her husband was a wealthy manufacturer and their son Stanley Baldwin
later became Prime Minister of Britain... |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
caved in and announced in April of the next year that women would be granted the same voting privileges as men. |
Friends, Associates | L. M. Montgomery | LMM
was contacted by British prime minister Stanley Baldwin
, who hoped to meet her on his upcoming trip to Canada. Rubio, Mary, and Elizabeth Waterston. Writing a Life: L.M. Montgomery. ECW Press. 83 |
Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | The work has been consistently admired. On its appearance the editor of The Spectator praised it for wonderful mastery of the borderland of the natural and the supernatural, Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research. 159: 256 |
Textual Features | Christina Stead | When Elvira elopes from her doctor husband, Paul, and from married life in London, it is to live in Paris with a student-poet, Oliver Fenton, who is younger than she and, like most of... |
Education | Elizabeth Taylor | Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books. 12-13 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Angela Thirkell | Stanley Baldwin
, later Prime Minister, and the poet and story-writer Rudyard Kipling
, were both cousins of AT
's mother. Kipling entered fully into the playing of a long-running English Civil War game with... |
Textual Production | Angela Thirkell | AT
's birth family was unselfconsciously, playfully literary. One winter she spent hours writing and neatly copying a whole book full of poems for her dear friend and cousin Josephine Kipling
(daughter of the writer)... |
Literary responses | Helen Waddell | This book too brought many letters of praise: from Rose Macaulay
, Æ
, Walter de la Mare
, and Stanley Baldwin
. Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable. 116-17 |
Literary responses | Mary Webb | Public praise of Precious Bane from former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
formed a basis for MW
's posthumous fame. Davies, Linda. Mary Webb Country. Palmers Press. 46 |
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