Margaret Storm Jameson : A Life.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Copyright and Permissions -- INTRODUCTION -- Writing and Politics: Life Lived at the Double -- Writing the Landscape: Culture and Identity -- Writing Herself: The Woman and the Masks -- PART I: The Little Englander -- 1. A Yorkshire Childhood -- Around Town -- Home and Family -- The Harlands -- 2. The Student in the North -- The Academic -- Socialite and Socialist -- The Sadlers: The Road to London -- 3. London 1912-1918 -- Student Freedom -- The Land of Lost Content -- Extraordinarily Rapid Changes of Circumstance -- 4. London 1919-1924 -- The New Novelist -- The Bohemian Girl -- Settling In -- 5. London 1924-1928: Publishing, Passion and Politics -- Passion and Publishing -- Publishers, Essayists, Novelists -- Pen for Hire -- 6. London 1928-Yorkshire 1931: 'Trying to be Superwoman' -- Fleet Street Rubbidge -- The Meretricious and Fading Rewards of Novel Writing -- Tears of Watery Blood -- PART II: Socialism and Internationalism: the English Road to Europe -- 7. London 1932-1934: New People, New Politics -- Europe at the Edge -- The London School of Economics -- The Politics of Pacifism -- 8. London 1934-1936: Expanding Horizons -- Socialist and European -- The Rise of Fascism -- An End to Dithering -- 9. Fiction and Form -- Staging the Spectacle -- Taking the Pulse of Modern Fiction -- 10. 1936-1938: Waking up to War -- From Pacifism to Popular Front -- Approaching Apocalypse -- Excursions and Invasions -- 11. 1938-1940: Crossing the Rubicon -- Poets to the Battlefront -- The Rallying of Class 1914 -- PEN Prepares for War -- PART III: Europe At War -- 12. 1940: Vile Betrayals -- PEN at War -- Europe Abandoned -- Internment -- Pacifism: A Personal Quarrel -- 13. 1941: Fighting with the French -- The Romains Affair -- Writers in Freedom.

Fighting with the Free French -- 14. 1941-1943: Holding On -- Plain Selfishness and Unpatriotic Conduct -- Living in North Wales -- 15. Fortifying the Nation: Narrative, Memory, and Culture -- The Fort -- Then We Shall Hear Singing -- Cloudless May -- 16. 1943-1945: Struggling to the End -- Combating Claustrophobia -- A Yorkshire Purgatory -- Counting the Cost of Freedom -- PART IV: Going Home -- 17. 1945-1949: Clearing Up -- A Yorkshire Haven -- Catastrophes and Quarrels -- Before the Crossing and The Black Laurel -- Between Moscow and Washington -- 18. 1949-1953: A European Future -- The Writer's Situation: Writing for Europe -- The Moment of Truth -- A Career Takes Off -- An Epic for the Future: The Green Man -- 19. 1953-1959: Understanding Exile -- Learning to Enjoy Life -- 'The Face of Treason': A Cup of Tea for Mr Thorgill -- Exile: The European Condition -- 20. 1960-1968: Letting Go and Settling Up -- Finishing with PEN -- Last Score: The Imperialist Charade -- Journey from the North: Writing a Substitute for Life -- Hanging On -- 21. Final Recall -- The Chimney of Ambition -- An End to Ambition -- Speaking across Generations: The Virago Imprint -- Living in Letters -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The life-story of Margaret Storm Jameson (1891-1986), prolific novelist and political activist. In her time Jameson gained international recognition for her writing and for her wartime work as President of PEN, fighting for freedom and social justice while rescuing refugees from Nazi Europe and British internment camps.

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