Phyllis Bottome

Phyllis Bottome, married Phyllis Forbes Dennis, ( born May 31, 1882 in Rochester (Kent ); † August 22, 1963 in London) was a British novelist and writer of short stories.

Life

Bottome was the daughter of American- Anglican clergyman William MacDonald Bottome and the Englishwoman Mary ( Leatham ) Bottome. She grew up with two older sisters and one younger brother. When she fell ill with tuberculosis, she had to spend several years in a sanatorium in St. Moritz, where she autodidactic developed itself to a writer. Her first novel was published in 1902. 1917 she married British diplomat Alban Ernan Forbes Dennis, who worked as a passport control officer in Marseille and then in Vienna, but in reality the head of the British secret service MI6 for Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia. Bottome friends with journalists and writers like Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound and was involved in cases that have shaped her life and her books: refugees, Jews, anti-fascism.

During their stay in Vienna Bottome studied at Alfred Adler Individual Psychology, which she was later useful in her work as a teacher and writer. She made an analysis of Leonhard Seif and her husband at Adler. In 1924 she founded with her husband, a school in Kitzbühel. The language teaching as a basis, the school should be a community and an educational laboratory to figure out how psychology and educational theories to overcome the chauvinism could help. One of her more famous students was the James Bond author Ian Fleming.

In 1935 she returned to London, where she 's novel The Mortal Storm ( Fatal Storm ) wrote that was a best seller and as a Penguin Special underwent thirteen editions within ten months.

Work

Her first novel, Life, the interpreter appeared in 1902 in New York and London. It is about women's education, class differences and social conventions. 1934 her best-known novel Private Worlds was published, who plays in a psychiatric hospital and in 1935 with Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyerunter directed by Gregory La Cava was filmed. She hoped the novel would make the public aware of the mental health attention and lead to better treatment options. Your stay in the late 1930s in Germany inspired the book The Mortal Storm ( Mortal Storm ), which is about the resistance of a German woman against anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany and became a bestseller. The film version of Mortal Storm was established in 1940 as one of the first anti- Nazi films from Hollywood. A total of four of her works were filmed. Published in 1962, the third and final volume of her autobiography titled The Goal (Target ). She wrote thirty-two novels ( science fiction and non-fiction ), twelve books of short stories, several biographies and became known as Eagle biographer.

For the Times Literary Supplement Bottome 's more of a social commentator states as an entertaining writer. She had a keen eye for the difficulties in the relationship and to call a real talent political backgrounds to mind. She never lost her belief that education in the broadest sense is the key to social change was to prevent a repeat of the misery through which the world had just gone. She used the theories eagle to explain the madness that had taken possession of the world. When she died, she called BBC Radio as a champion of the underprivileged and misunderstood.

Publications

  • Alfred Adler portrays close. First German translation, VTA - publisher of depth psychology and anthropology, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-040056-8. http://alfred-adler-portrait.com/
  • Alfred Adler - Apostle of Freedom. London 1939, Faber & Faber. 3rd Ed. Alfred Adler - A Portrait from Life, The Vanguard Press, New York 1957.
  • The Dark Tower 1916
  • Kingfisher, 1922
  • The Perfect Wife, 1924
  • Life of Olive Schreiner, 1924
  • Old Wine, 1926
  • The Belated Reckoning, 1926
  • Windlestraws, 1929
  • The Advances of Harriet, 1933
  • Private Worlds, 1934
  • Murder in the Bud
  • Level Crossing, 1936
  • Mortal Storm ( The Mortal Storm ), 1938
  • Danger Signal, 1939
  • Masks and Faces, 1940
  • Formidable to Tyrants, 1941
  • London Pride 1941
  • Mansion House of Liberty, 1941
  • The Heart of a Child, 1942
  • Within a Cup, 1943
  • Survival, 1943
  • From the Life, 1944, London, Faber & Faber. Six studies of the author 's friends, Alfred Adler, Max Beerbohm, Ivor Novello, Sara Delano Roosevelt, Ezra Pound, Margaret MacDonald Bottome.
  • The Life Line, 1946
  • Innocence and Experience, 1947
  • Search for a Soul, 1947
  • Fortune's finger, 1950
  • Under the Skin - Love Drew No Color Line When a White Woman Entered a Negro 's World, 1950
  • The Challenge 1953
  • The Secret Stair, 1954
  • Against Whom? 1954
  • Eldorado Jane, 1956
  • Walls of Glass, 1958
  • The Goal, 1962 - her autobiography
  • Our New Order or Hitler 's? A Selection of Speeches by Winston Churchill, Archbishop of Canterbury, Anthony Eden & Others, ed by Ph. Bottome, Penguin Books Middlesex 1943
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