Fascist Party

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Literary Setting	Philip Larkin	The story first picks Phippy up in Form II; in Form IV he fails to borrow a dictionary from an aesthete named the Hon. Percy de Selincourt, who in Form V betrays him and precipitates...
politics	Emmuska Baroness Orczy	Even writing after the outbreak of the next war, EBO expressed approval of the early days of Mussolini 's Fascism and its routing of turbulent communistic elements in Italy, Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. Links in the Chain of Life. Hutchinson, 1947. 173 but having built a house...
politics	Naomi Jacob	Having at first been inclined to admire Mussolini , NJ had by summer 1935 recognized his Fascist regime as hateful. This was a bold stance to adopt at this date for someone resident in Italy...
Textual Features	Romer Wilson	The work is often described as epistolary; it is written in the first person, in letters which are varied with sketches that read almost like diary entries. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Shanks, Edward. “Romer Wilson: Some Observations”. The London Mercury, Vol. 22 , No. 130, Aug. 1930, pp. 343-9. 346 Through the letters and sketches of the...
Textual Features	Una Troubridge	In her Foreword, UT promises, as if a court of law, to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Troubridge, Una. The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall. Hammond, Hammond, 1961. 5 She begins by sketching Hall's family history and her family...
Textual Production	Evelyn Waugh	EW embarked on travel writing with Labels: A Mediterranean Journal, 1930, which sets out in breezy letter-writing style to record comfortable travel (around the Middle East and North Africa as well as southern Europe...
Textual Production	Eleanor Rathbone	ER was already alert to the effects of expansionist fascism when she contributed a foreword to The Tragedy of Abyssinia. What Britain Feels and Thinks and Wants, published by the League of Nations Union . Pedersen, Susan. Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. Yale University Press, 2004. 380
Textual Production	Eleanor Rathbone	During this year and the next she produced a number of reports on threatening international developments. In October that year she and other members of a committee of enquiry into breaches of international law in...
Textual Production	Cicely Hamilton	Between 1931 and 1939, CH published a series of travel books, which includes works on France, 1933, Russia, 1934, Austria, 1935, Ireland, 1936, Scotland, 1937, England, 1938, and Sweden...
Textual Production	Philip Larkin	The Juvenilia Press produced in 2002 an edition of Incidents from Phippy's Schooldays, PL 's mock boys'-school story (hard to date, but evidently written in the later 1930s during the rise of the Fascists
Textual Production	Nancy Mitford	In her third novel, Wigs on the Green, NM satirized the fascist sympathies of her sisters Unity and Diana . Hastings, Selina. Nancy Mitford: A Biography. Hamish Hamilton, 1985. 98-100 Mitford, Nancy. Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford. Editor Mosley, Charlotte, Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. 68-9
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Evelyn Waugh	The protagonist of these books, Guy Crouchback, is a middle-aged Roman Catholic, divorced from his wife, Virginia (though not in the eyes of the Church , which therefore does not regard a sexual fling with...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Edna St Vincent Millay	This volume is composed mostly of personal love poems (some of them dating back to 1932), in a different strain from the contents of Wine from These Grapes, which Millay had intended as a...
Travel	Evelyn Waugh	Having reported on Haile Selassie's coronation for The Times, he made further visits to Ethiopia (Abyssinia) in 1935 to write for the Daily Mail about its invasion by the Italians, and again as a...
Travel	Anne Ridler	Her memoir details her family holidays: six weeks in lodgings in summer and two at Easter, visiting Cornwall, St Davids in Wales, the Lake District, and France (the first time, to Brittany...

Timeline

28-30 October 1922

Mussolini , leader of Italy's Fascists , stayed in the background during his party's so-called March on Rome, then arrived in Rome to speak with the king, Victor Emmanuel III .

Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.

Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.

235

Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.

, Anchor, 1978.

II: 159

“Italy History Timeline & Facts”. Facts About . . . : Facts About World History, Timelines & Events.

11 February 1929

Mussolini signed the Lateran Treaty, or Concordat with the Pope : this gave sanction to the Fascist regime in Italy, and set up the independent microstate of Vatican City in Rome.

Johnson, Richard William. “I’m all for it”. London Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2000, pp. 11-12.

Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.

“12 February 1929. Fascism and the Vatican”. Guardian Weekly, 12 Feb. 2016, p. 22.

18 December 1935

The Hoare-Laval Pact (appeasement of recent territorial aggression by Mussolini 's Italy) was sealed. It enraged Britons to such an extent that Samuel Hoare was compelled to retire from politics.

Thomson, David, and Geoffrey Warner. England in the Twentieth Century, 1914-1979. 2nd ed., Penguin Books, 1981.

154

Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.

380

Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.

291

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