Thomas Mann

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 Christina, as she is called in the book (The Cruel Way, unpublished until 1947), was in fact the...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...

AB 's correspondents included Ka Arnold-Foster , John Betjeman , E. M. Forster , Margaret Haig Rhondda , Margaret Irwin , John Masefield , Naomi Mitchison , I. A. Richards , Vita Sackville-West , and...

In Palomino (a story which goes deliberately to extremes) a female doctor, who has been de-registered and imprisoned for murder, falls in love with the daughter of an ex-lover, who is pregnant from an incestuous...

The narrative voice (a Scottish one, apparently as a kind of joke) is complex and shifting, with irony fed by unstable reference to the central couple (now Muriel and Henry, now Mother and Father, and...

The organisation was set up in 1935, at the end of the First International Congress of Writers held in the Salle de la Mutualité in Paris. It proposed to be a more partisan and...

Later, after the Reichstag fire in the spring of 1933, distinguished exiles from Nazi Germany, Jews and left-wingers who got out early, began to choose Sanary as their temporary home: Bertolt Brecht , Thomas Mann

EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound. She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...