Weimar Germany as seen by an Englishwoman: British women writers and the Weimar Republic

While the literature on male writers visiting Weimar Germany, and on Christopher Isherwood and his friends in particular, is extensive, little has been written on the attitudes of the many well-known and high-profile female writers who left accounts of their impressions of conditions in the Weimar Republic. These writings reveal key differences in the attitudes of male and female intellectuals towards issues such as the occupation of the Rhineland and the changes taking place in the lives of German women, and therefore help to highlight the diverse and complex nature of British feeling towards Germany in the Weimar period.