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Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics

Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics

Marco Pasi

We learn thus that Godden, ten years before her letters to Father Ledit included in the file we are discussing, was ... A Miss Gertrude M. Godden, from Wimbledon, is in fact mentioned as a member of the Folk-Lore Society in the first issue of the ...
Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain's Fascist Movement, 1923-45

Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain's Fascist Movement, 1923-45

Julie V. Gottlieb

3 Gertrude M. Godden, Mussolini: The Birth of the New Democracy (London, 1923), p.7. It is interesting to note that G.M. Godden was also responsible for sending the Home Office reports on the activities of the Kibbo Kift Kindred and the  ...
Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller

Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller

Lucy Le-Guilcher

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Lucy LeGuilcher and Phyllis Lassner PART I: RUMER GODDEN'S INDIA 1 The View from the Middle: Godden and her Literary Landscape Mary Grover 2 “Far More ...
Henry Fielding: A Memoir Including Newly Discovered Letters ...

Henry Fielding: A Memoir Including Newly Discovered Letters ...

Gertrude M. Godden

The same characteristics may be distinguished in a small figure of the novelist introduced into the still earlier political cartoon, entitled the Funeral of Faction. Such in brief are the reasons for the existence of this volume.
man past and present

man past and present

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... detail," says Mr H. Roberts, author of a good Grammar of the A'hassi Language , Kegan Paul Series, 1893. On the astonishing number of distinct languages in the whole of this region see Gertrude M. Godden's paper " On the Naga and other  ...
The Greengage Summer

The Greengage Summer

Rumer Godden

The Greengage Summer is Rumer Godden’s tense, evocative portrait of love and deceit in the Champagne country of the Marne – which became a memorable film starring Kenneth More and Susannah York. ‘An exciting tale, this novel has both ...
The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have ...

The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have ...

Alice Walker

Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, ... placed one hand under a wing, the other under Gertrude's body, covering Gertrude's gray, scaly, entirely precious feet.
The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945: Volume Eight

The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945: Volume Eight

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304. Gayathri Prabhu, 'In Search of Rumer Godden's India', in Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller, ed. Lucy Le-Guilcher and Phyllis B. Lassner (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), pp. 51–64, p. 60. Lucy Le-Guilcher and Phyllis B.
Wars I Have Seen

Wars I Have Seen

Gertrude Stein

Wars I Have Seen is the American writer Gertrude Stein's memoir of her experiences during the Second World War. Gertrude Stein was living in Europe during the time of the war.
Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell

Susan Goodman

During her lifetime the name of Gertrude Bell evoked rich images of the exotic and mysterious Arab world.
A Stein Reader

A Stein Reader

Gertrude Stein

This important collection presents Gertrude Stein for the first time in her brilliant modernity.
A Quest in the Middle East: Gertrude Bell and the Making of ...

A Quest in the Middle East: Gertrude Bell and the Making of ...

Liora Lukitz

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, the daughter of one of the most eminent members of the rising elites, was a vivid example of the new spirit of enterprise that spilled over from the aristocracy to Britain's financial and industrial upper classes.
Narration: Four Lectures

Narration: Four Lectures

Gertrude Stein

Newly famous in the wake of the publication of her groundbreaking Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein delivered her Narration lectures to packed audiences at the University of Chicago in 1935.
Top 101 Remarkable Women

Top 101 Remarkable Women

Britannica Educational Publishing

(b. 1868–d. 1926) nglish traveler and writer Gertrude Bell worked as an administrator in Arabia. She playedaprincipalpart in the establishment of the Hāshimite Dynasty inBaghdad. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was born on July 14, 1868, ...
Portraits and Prayers

Portraits and Prayers

Gertrude Stein

Portraits and Prayers is a collection of early essays and word portraits by the American writer Gertrude Stein. Her subjects often provide a description of what she observed in her Saturday salons.
The Ladies' Companion

The Ladies' Companion

Edgar Allan Poe

When shall we be married, Giles V said Gertrude Gray, as if awakening from a dream. "When shall I live entirely with you, in the cottage home of which you speak ? Ere many months have passed away, I hope?" "I hope so, Gertrude, yet" "Yet," ...
Reconstructed World: A Feminist Biography of Gertrude Richardson

Reconstructed World: A Feminist Biography of Gertrude Richardson

Barbara Roberts

The first biography of Gertrude Richardson (1875-1946), A Reconstructed World reveals her key role in the development of feminism and pacifism in England and Canada and her remarkable accomplishments as both an activist and a writer.
Matisse, Picasso, and Gertrude Stein, with Two Shorter Stories

Matisse, Picasso, and Gertrude Stein, with Two Shorter Stories

Gertrude Stein

Three early experimental pieces involving such stylistic devices as repeated variations on a limited set of sentences and phrases, and "word portraits." Also includes "A Long Gay Book" and "Many, Many Women."
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946

The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946

Gertrude Stein

This monumental two-volume set of her correspondence with Carl Van Vechten, the critic novelist, and photographer, offers new insight into Stein's life, her art, and the intellectual and artistic milieu of Paris.
The Anti-Representational Response: Gertrude Stein's Lucy ...

The Anti-Representational Response: Gertrude Stein's Lucy ...

Victoria Maubrey-Rose

Saarinen, Aline (Bernstein) Louchheim (Mrs Eero Saarinen). "The Steins in Paris. " American Scholar, 27 (1958), 437—448. Schmitz, Neil. "Gertrude Stein as Post- Modernist: the Rhetoric of Tender Buttons." Journal of Modern Literature, ...
GEOGRAPHY & PLAYS: A Collection of Poems, Stories and Plays

GEOGRAPHY & PLAYS: A Collection of Poems, Stories and Plays

Gertrude Stein

Geography and Plays is a generous collection of poems, stories and plays and they present Gertrude Stein's stream-of-consciousness writings. These rhythmical essays or word portraits are often considered as literature's answer to Cubism.

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