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6 days ago · Collection contains letters from Christopher Isherwood to his brother, Richard Isherwood, and his mother, Kathleen Machell Smith Isherwood. The letters describe his life in America, his efforts to become a United States citizen, and his involvement with Indian Vedanta philosophy and the Swāmi Prabhavananda.
May 16, 2024 · Christopher Isherwood discovered his people in Weimar Berlin, at an institute for sexology, underneath a portrait of Edward Carpenter. It was no coincidence. In the early 20th century, the German language coined words such as “homosexuality”, collated famous and diverse cases of LGBT+ history in anthologies, and set up publication houses ...
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May 21, 2024 · Meeting Isherwood Christopher Isherwood (left) and W. H. Auden (right) circa the late 1930s. By late 1931, Ross had moved to Schöneberg, Berlin, where she shared modest lodgings in Fräulein Meta Thurau's flat at Nollendorfstraße 17 with English writer Christopher Isherwood, whom she had met in October 1930 or early 1931.
May 19, 2024 · Let’s race through some quick thoughts about the three books…. Day 17: Tipping the Velvet (1998) by Sarah Waters. I’d read all of Waters’ other novels, but somehow not got around to her first. As you’ll probably know, it tells the story of Nancy. She grows up in a Whitstable family whose living is made by selling oysters – and by ...
Apr 30, 2024 · CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD INSIDE OUT. by Katherine Bucknell ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 27, 2024. An engrossing, rigorously documented study of a 20th-century literary trailblazer.
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2 days ago · The events depicted in the 1966 musical are derived from Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood's autobiographical tales of his colorful escapades in the Weimar Republic. In 1929, Isherwood visited Weimar-era Berlin during the final months of the Golden Twenties.
Apr 30, 2024 · Cabaret is based on John Van Druten’s play I Am a Camera (1951), which was inspired by the British-American author Christopher Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical The Berlin Stories (1945).
