Benito Mussolini

SP took up political causes again in 1932, speaking out against fascism in general and Mussolini in particular. When Italy began hostilities against Ethiopia in December 1934, SP and Corio used this event to focus...

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, but having built a house...

The BBC approached Bottome to write propaganda to help entice America into war because of the popularity of her novels in the United States. Her script uses Disney cartoon characters to depict the two...

NJ , a virtual refugee from Mussolini 's antisemitic regime, reached London from Sirmione in Italy by way of St Raphael in the south of France and Gibraltar.

In response to Mussolini 's racial laws, which barred Jews from various kinds of employment, NJ left Italy. While Olivia Etherington-Smith and Sadie Robinson travelled from Sirmione to England, she spent some time first at...

Back in England from a Europe distraught and obsessed between Hitler and Mussolini , with Stalin waiting in the wings,PB was disturbed at finding in Londoneasy nonchalance about Hitler's anti-semitism.

In her Foreword, UT promises, as if a court of law, to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. She begins by sketching Hall's family history and her family...

Though it includes a sketch of Vita, the memoir focuses predominantly on two other love affairs: those between VT and her mother, and between VT and France. Trefusis acknowledges the gaps in this life...

The swallow of the title is the play's protagonist, Mary. In her marriage to the well-intentioned prig Joseph Elwes, she struggles against the gender constraints imposed on her as a woman and a wife.

RF published when Mussolini had conquered and exiled Haile Selassie , but before Queen Wilhelmina had fled from home before the invading Nazis , or Russia had switched sides and entered the war against Germany...

The Hogarth Press was publishing work by Mussolini at the same time as this work, in which an idealised Italy, site of freedom and escape, plays an important role.

She signs her letters as Aunt George or (her family nickname) Aunt Chav. She often describes theatrical events she has been to, and books she has read. She offers White career advice, telling him for...

EP published Eleven New Cantos, XXI-XLI, the last of which recounts his meeting with Mussolini in January 1933.

The manifesto masks its serious political content with a certain tongue-in-cheek tone: We do not like the way Mussolini has organised his colonial empire. / We do not like the way Hitler has managed his...

Barney's translator Anna Livia describes these memoirs as a combination of war commentary, political theory, and an account of daily life in Fascist Italy. Despite NCB 's insistence that she is apolitical, her loyalties clearly...