The third book under this title comprises a dozen essays from a March 1999 conference in London. Seven of them are in German; the abstracts are in the same language as the essays themselves. The focus is on the period of World War II. Among the English topics are women's autobiographies, the Freedom Publishing Company, and marginality and centrality. Only names are indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Some seventy thousand or more refugees from National Socialism came to Britain from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia and engaged in a wide range of cultural and political activities. Professor Ritchie reveals the extraordinary vitality of these exile activities. Professor Ritchie has published widely on Expressionism and the Weimar Republic, hence studies of the exile experience of artists and writers from this period figure prominently in this collection of his essays. Other focuses of this work women in exile in Britain; poets; dramatists; and writers of prose. The concluding essays expand the scope even further to include more recent European exiles.