Erika Mann

Nicholas Jenkins of Stanford University formerly maintained on his website at http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/ a section called W. H. Auden. Family Ghosts, designed to show how Auden's family, despite his claims to ordinariness, sprang from a...

In 1935 WHA married Erika Mann (cabaret artist, writer, and daughter of the more famous writer Thomas Mann ), in order to provide her with a British passport, an escape from Nazi Germany, and a...

EKM relates that she travelled with a woman friend who was battling drug addiction. Christina, as she is called in the book (The Cruel Way, unpublished until 1947), was in fact the...

Introduced to Aldous Huxley and his wife Maria by the South African poet Roy Campbell while at Sanary, the young SB became their intimate friend. She was later embarrassed by her earlier admiration for...

CMC therefore shared her day-to-day life at various times with Davis , W. H. Auden , Louis MacNiece , Gypsy Rose Lee , Benjamin Britten , Richard Wright , Paul and Jane Bowles , Christopher Isherwood

At this time, with a German passport near its expiry date and an application for French citizenship which had so far gone nowhere, she attracted the attention of the Nazi authorities not only by expressing...