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The essayist Odette Keun accused fellow liberals in the 1930s of being 'spineless' in failing to meet the ideological challenges from Fascism and Communism.1 Of French birth and Dutch parentage, Keun, an avid traveller, was one of an international group of liberals preoccupied with world affairs and alarmed by the rise of totalitarian ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Odette Keun: a critical socialist in Menshevic Georgia. AU - Companjen, F.J. PY - 2015. Y1 - 2015. M3 - Article. SN - 0066-4677. VL - II
Abstract. In a series of articles in Time and Tide (October 1934) which appeared under the title ‘H. G. Wells—The Player’, Odette Keun—who had been Wells’s close friend and companion for the previous decade—strongly criticised him for his alleged inconsistency and disingenuousness and asserted that Experiment in Autobiography, which ...
27. Sept. 2020 · And hell followed: a European ally interprets the war for ordinary people like herself. by Odette Keun First published in 1942 2 editions in 1 language. Not in Library. Want to Read.
European admirer called Odette Keun sent Wells a book she had written, an account of her time in post-Revolutionary Russia called Sous Lenin. Keun, the half-Italian half-Dutch daughter of a diplomat had, at 36, led a peripatetic and defiantly unconventional life. She declared that she admired the 58-year-old Wells as ‘a super-star’. More ...
18. Nov. 2019 · Odette Keun in Torquay. It was in the early years of the Second World War that Odette Keun came to live in Torquay. Odette ended up in our town as she had been bombed out of the Mount Royal Hotel in London. Odette was a travel writer, the daughter of a Dutch diplomat and of French birth. Today she is probably best known as the lover of HG Wells.
