343:, by A.T. Fitzroy – probably a pen-name. Of its hideous immoralities the less said the better; but concerning its sympathetic presentation, in the mouths of its ‛hero’ and of other characters of pacifism and conscientious objection, and of sneering at the English as compared with the Hun, this needs to be asked: What is the use of our spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on propaganda, and tens of thousands more on Censorship, while pestiferous filth like this remains unsuppressed? The book is published by C.W. Daniel, Ltd., of Graham House, Tudor Street; and I imagine that it will not be long, after the authorities have examined this literary fungus, before he is a Daniel brought to judgment.
227:, Ottoman Empire (now Greece) on 17 December 1856, to Moïse (Moses) Allatini (1809–1882) and Rosa Mortera (1819 – 1892); her mother, Bronislawa ("Bronia") Rapoport von Porada was born in Krakow, Poland (then under Austrian control) on 17 December 1869, to Arnold Rapoport, Edler von Porada (1840-1907) and Laura Rapoport Edlen von Porada (Eibenshutz). By 1911, Rose Laure Allatini, her sister Flore and their parents, Roberto and Bronislawa, were living at 18 Holland Park, London, and Robert Allatini was listed in the census as a retired merchant. In 1946, her mother (living at 61B Holland Park) renounced her Italian citizenship upon becoming a naturalized British citizen.
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no further than look on him as an unhappy invalid. We have no intention of disclosing in what constitutes his abnormality. Those who read his story may regard his malady as ridiculous, others as something worse. A good laugh at Mr
Fitzroy’s lack of humour where Dennis is concerned will disperse the rather unwholesome vapours. But what about a pacifist apostle who is so on the ground of abnormality? His whole case is given away.
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homosexual who had previously courted her, partly as a disguise for his actual sexuality, and partly in the hope that she might 'cure' him. Dennis is a conscientious objector as well as a homosexual, and the combined themes of pacifism and sexual unorthodoxy made the book one that was bound to cause serious controversy in 1918. Rose
Allatini submitted the manuscript to the firm of
215:. The novel has been described by Angela K. Smith as drawing a connection between the persecution of homosexuals and the rhetoric of imperialism. It tells the story of a young woman's complex relationship with a homosexual composer who is conscripted for military service; his refusal leads to trial and imprisonment.
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But pacifism is not the main theme. The hero, Dennis
Blackwood, walks and talks through a considerable portion of the book before a war breaks out and exhibits himself as a hopeless victim of neurasthenia. He is an abnormal young man, held up for pity as such, but also for admiration. Charity can go
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The book was tried at the City of London court at the
Mansion House on 10 October 1918 and Daniel was fined £420 with £40 costs. After the trial, Daniel published a pamphlet defending himself against charges of immorality, and claiming that he had not realised the sexual implications of Allatini's
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I was assured by the author that the love between the hero and his friend was analogous to that between David and
Jonathan. I did not see what has since been pointed out – that certain passages are open to an immoral interpretation. Personally, I would rather that any book were burnt than that I
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published in 1918 is set among pacifists during World War I. The sexuality of many of the characters in the book is represented as unstable, in a way unusual for the period. Antoinette, the main female character, at first has a passionate crush on an older woman, and then falls for Dennis, a
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242: ... in Beckley, a small village in Sussex, she lived in London, but every year for health reasons she went to Switzerland and Melanie accompanied her." Both Project Orlando and the Brighton Gay and Lesbian website
238:. They had two children, Vivien Mary born 1923 and Desmond Cyril (1926-2019), but separated in 1939, after the outbreak of WWII. Her son's memoir says that "Except for the war years 1939–45, which she spent with
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Wainwright' and thirty under the name 'Eunice Buckley'), as well as writing short stories.
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Mills and Boon, 1921 (A young woman's strange behaviour distances her from her family. She is assessed by psychiatrists, but is saved by the intervention of a
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novelist who wrote under the pseudonyms R. Allatini, A.T. Fitzroy, Mrs Cyril Scott, Lucian
Wainwright, and Eunice Buckley. She is best known for her 1918 novel
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1933 (" collection of stories and sketches which a pleasant sympathy or a sentimental irony makes readable enough.")
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Sloan, John (June 2004). "A War of
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The Second Battlefield: Women, Modernism and the First World War
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601:, Robert Hale, 1972 (Zero and Rosalind novel.)
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1064:"Rose Allatini © Orlando Project"
899:"Rose Allatini © Orlando Project"
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459:, Andrew Dakers, 1941 (After the
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953:. Huddersfield, UK: Snakeskin.
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990:((August 19 and 26, 2011), 16
951:Rose Allatini: A Woman Writer
723:The Review of English Studies
509:, Hodder and Stoughton, 1956
393:When I was a Queen in Babylon
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641:Young Man of Great Promise
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694:Angela K. Smith (2000).
240:Melanie (J. M. A.) Mills
211:and was taken up by the
193:Defence of the Realm Act
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1026:"Despised and Rejected"
605:The Face of the Tempter
593:You've Got to Have Gold
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623:The Half of My Kingdom
575:Diamonds in the Family
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583:, Robert Hale, 1969
569:The Man on the Rope
467:Destination Unknown
438:Girl of Good Family
408:, C.W.Daniel, 1918.
303:Manchester Guardian
165:Rose Laure Allatini
45:Rose Laure Allatini
852:on 20 October 2013
563:They Walk on Earth
541:The Consuming Fire
489:Music in the Woods
471:Family from Vienna
457:Family from Vienna
413:As Mrs Cyril Scott
244:Brighton Our Story
93:Lucian Wainwright,
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635:Work of Art
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432:Waters Meet
322:The Rainbow
290:C.W. Daniel
232:Cyril Scott
189:A T Fitzroy
173:Rye, Sussex
138:Cyril Scott
118:Nationality
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177:Austrian
144:Children
108:Language
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