Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Sigrid Undset
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Standard Name: Undset, Sigrid
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10 December 1928: Sigrid Undset's powerful and evocative novelistic...
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10 December 1928
Sigrid Undset
's powerful and evocative novelistic descriptions of Scandinavian life in the Middle Ages gained her the Nobel
Prize in Literature. (The British Sir Owen Willans Richardson
won the prize in Physics.)
10 May 1933: Following a speech from Joseph Goebbels,...
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10 May 1933
Following a speech from Joseph Goebbels
, over 40,000 people participated in burning books to cleanse German literature and root out Jewish intellectualism.