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Julie V. Gottlieb
Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain’s Fascist Movement, 1923–45
New York: I. B. Tauris, 2003
“Feminine fascism” is a phrase that Julie V. Gottlieb uses to describe the forward-thinking, yet traditionally influenced, ideology embraced by Britain’s fascists. Their objective was not a return to the past, to a time when women were solely mothers and homemakers. Read more …
Unity Valkyrie Mitford:
August 8, 1914–May 28, 1948
During my recent travels, my light reading consisted of several thick books on the Mitford girls, the six daughters of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale and his wife Sydney (née Bowles).
Diana Mitford became the wife of Sir Oswald Mosley. Unity Valkyrie Mitford became Hitler’s confidante. Read more …