Phyllis Bottome (1884–1963)
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Bottome, Phyllis
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Forbes Dennis, Phyllis
- Geburtstag
- 1884-05-31
- Todestag
- 1963-08-22
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- UK
- Geburtsort
- Rochester, Kent, England, UK
- Sterbeort
- London, England, UK
- Wohnorte
- Rochester, Kent, England, UK
Vienna, Austria
Kitzhubel, Austria
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
London, England, UK
United States of America - Berufe
- novelist
short story writer
essayist
biographer
memoirist - Beziehungen
- Adler, Alfred (teacher)
Dennis, Nigel (nephew)
Fleming, Ian (student)
Pound, Ezra (friend)
Novello, Ivor (friend)
Thompson, Dorothy (friend) - Kurzbiographie
- Phyllis Bottome was the pen name of Phyllis Forbes Dennis, born in Rochester, Kent. Her parents were the Rev. William MacDonald Bottome, an American-born clergyman, and his English wife, Mary Leatham Bottome. According to her memoirs, she had an unstable childhood and a patchy education. She began writing novels as a teenager, and also contracted tuberculosis, which caused her health problems for the rest of her life. In 1917, she married Ernan Forbes Dennis, a British diplomat working undercover for the British Secret Service as a passport control officer. During World War I, she was active in relief efforts for refugees and assisted John Buchan at the Department of Information. While in Vienna, where her husband was stationed, she studied Alfred Adler's theory of Individual Psychology with Adler himself. In the 1920s, she went to the Austrian mountain village of Kitzbühel for her health and with her husband started an experimental school for difficult British schoolboys. One of their more famous students was Ian Fleming. In the 1930s, the couple were posted to Nazi Germany, the inspiration for her prescient and best-known novel, The Mortal Storm (1937). It was adapted into the first openly anti-Nazi Hollywood film in 1940 and helped to blunt the isolationist stance in the USA. Three more of her works – Private Worlds (1934), Danger Signal (1939), and The Heart of a Child (1942), were also adapted into films. Over her 60-year writing career, she published 34 novels, several of them bestsellers, plus short stories, essays, biographies and memoirs. She also lectured widely in Britain and the USA. She was a friend of many other writers and artists, including Dorothy Thompson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Max Beerbohm, Ezra Pound, Daphne du Maurier, Violet Bonham Carter, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Storm Jameson, Pamela Hansford Johnson, and Ivor Novello.
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The remarkable thing about this novel is that it was written in 1938 and doesn’t pull any punches about the growing Nazi threat nor its inhuman practices and potential for atrocity. It’s a remarkably prescient read that, unfortunately, still has resonance today in its look at the effects of fanaticism of all shades.
It is a difficult read at times due to both its subject matter and its verbose 1930s writing style, but it deserves to be more widely read and discussed.… (mehr)