Christopher Isherwood

The Press, which began as therapy and for the purpose of publishing the works of its owners, grew into a major engine of modern culture and thought. Its political interests were served by enlightened...

Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West , Stella Benson , Cicely Hamilton , Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor and Ellen Wilkinson , Virginia Woolf , Naomi Mitchison , E. M. Delafield , Rose Macaulay

The genesis of this novel probably dates from a visit which EMF made in September 1913 to the socialist and homosexual activist Edward Carpenter , whose lifelong campaign against prejudice and inequity were an inspiration...

WHA , with Christopher Isherwood , left England for the United States, not intending at the time to stay permanently. He became a US citizen in 1946.

WHA and Christopher Isherwood published Journey to a War, a book of poetry based on their trip to China to investigate the Sino-Japanese War.

Actual performance pieces were The Dance of Death, published in 1933 and performed by the Group Theatre in 1934, and three plays written with Isherwood : The Dog Beneath the Skin; or, Where is...

From autumn 1928 WHA lived for nearly a year at Berlin in Germany, at first with a comfortably bourgeois family selected by his own, then in a poor district selected by himself. He chose...