Katharine Burdekin

Debra Benita Shaw (University of East London)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Newman University), Louise McDonald (Newman University)

Dates

Born 23 Jul 1896
Died 10 Aug 1963
Activity 1922-1940

Places

Born in England
Active in England

Cultural Identities

Feminist

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Resources

In July 1940, the Left Book Club selection was, unusually, a novel. Swastika Night, by a reclusive but respected writer called Murray Constantine, was originally published by Victor Gollancz in 1937, but was reissued by the Left Book Club in what the editorial referred to as “these difficult summer months” as a distraction for readers in need of an analysis of fascism which might offer some hope of its eventual defeat. Swastika Night, like Constantine's previous novel for Gollancz, Proud Man (1934), presented, in fictional form, an argument for pacifism along with a searing indictment of 'the cult of masculinity' which led some commentators at the time to suggest that he might, in fact, be a woman writing under a…

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Citation: Shaw, Debra Benita. "Katharine Burdekin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 July 2001 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=643, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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