Drabble, Margaret. Arnold Bennett: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974.
233-4, 237
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Employer | 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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rebecca West | Through the 1920s, RW
had several brief and sometimes conflicted romantic liaisons with men. In 1920 she made some moves towards having an affair with Compton Mackenzie
in retaliation for Wells
's continuing infidelities. During... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Barbara Cartland | Around 1920, BC
accepted a proposal from Dick Usher
, but when her mother told her about the details of sexual relations she was so horrified that she broke off the engagement. She also claimed... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Nell Dunn | Her paternal grandfather, Sir James Dunn
(a wily and opportunistic financier from New Brunswick in Canada), was twice divorced, the second time in 1942. He lived until the first day of 1956 and died... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Frankau | This novel centres around the family and professional relationships of a man with a will to power: J. G. (or Sir James) Baron, a newspaper magnate. PF
insisted that this character was not based on... |
Occupation | Arnold Bennett | AB
was appointed first director of British propaganda in France. By the end of September he became director of propaganda for the Ministry of Information
, an unpaid position reporting directly to Lord Beaverbrook
. Drabble, Margaret. Arnold Bennett: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974. 233-4, 237 |
Author summary | Arnold Bennett | An extraordinarily prolific English writer of both literary-realist and mass-interest novels, short stories, pocket philosophy self-help manuals, plays, journal articles and book reviews, AB
was acclaimed as an artist in his own time and was... |
Publishing | Lady Cynthia Asquith | At the suggestion of Venetia Montagu
, LCA
wrote a journalistic article intended for, but not accepted by, Lord Beaverbrook
's Sunday Express (launched the previous month). Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 281 and n2 |
Reception | Arnold Bennett | AB
was publicly accused of modelling Raingo (in a book whose characters include several portraits from life) on his friend and erstwhile employer Lord Beaverbrook
. He responded vigorously to this charge. In fact Beaverbrook... |
Textual Production | Rebecca West | This semi-autobiographical novel was West's third to appear after her death. Dedicated to G. B. Stern
, it was based on West's affair with Lord Beaverbrook
. Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Afterword”. Sunflower, Virago, 1986, pp. 268-76. 268, 270 |
Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | Working for the Labour Party
in summer 1945, CM
wrote a number of reports on current and remembered political issues: among other things she covered the fishing industry (ten thousand words), the government of New... |
Textual Production | Arnold Bennett | The Standard (which had from time to time, from early in his career, carped at him in reviews) now belonged to his friend Lord Beaverbrook
, whom he had advised on a policy of moving... |
Wealth and Poverty | Jan Struther | Their drop in income was partly due to the fact that Tony Maxtone Graham's father had offended Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
. Having moved once, they quickly moved again. Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray, 2001. 84-5 |
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