McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne, 1985.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hannah Arendt | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hannah Arendt | Arendt puts forward several points which many readers found controversial or even unacceptable. As her sub-title makes clear, she does not present Eichmann as a monster, an exception, or a freakishly wicked specimen of the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. M. Delafield | The pamphlet stresses the importance of beating the Nazis
, under whose rule women and children would suffer the most. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Nancy Mitford | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Stevie Smith | This highly unusual novel takes the form of a disconnected journal by a publisher's secretary named Pompey, an alienated but irrepressible member of the disregarded female work-force, who is clearly an alter-ego for SS
... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Phyllis Bottome | This book, set in 1938 in Austria, condemns both NaziGermany and aggressive, self-destructive aspects of Austrian and German culture. Lassner, Phyllis. British Women Writiers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own. St Martin’s Press, 1998. 230 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Phyllis Bottome | Like another open letter by PB
, I Accuse (not published until the end of this year), this one is highly critical of Anschluss (the Nazi
takeover of Austria), for which she holds Britain partly responsible. Lassner, Phyllis. British Women Writiers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own. St Martin’s Press, 1998. 217 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | Her alarm about the scope for Nazi
propaganda (through agents including prostitutes) among the recently rich, now impoverished, South Americans is fuelled by attitudes which are today seen as racist: to the prevalent combination of... |
| Travel | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Like Germany and North America, Austria became a regular destination and she made a number of ongoing friendships there. She visited in 1928, 1934 (when the shadow of Nazism
was already perceptible), 1936, and in... |
| 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... |
| Travel | Mary Agnes Hamilton | This was a step towards remedying what she terms her long neglect of France. She was back there again several times in 1939. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944. 193-4, 208, 210 |
| Travel | Barbara Pym | After visiting NaziGermany with the National Union of Students
in March 1934, BP
travelled with the same organization the following year to Budapest. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994. 8-9 Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992. 32-3 |
| Travel | Vera Brittain | VB
's political commitments involved a great deal of travel, beginning with journeys all around England as a League of Nations Union
lecturer. She was in Cologne in October 1924 observing the hungry, hopeless Germans... |
| Violence | Sylvia Beach | SB
was forced to close Shakespeare and Company
, her Paris bookshop, following threats of seizure by the Nazis
. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983. 404-5 |
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