Power, loyalty and the damage caused by social pressure recur throughout Lillian Hellman’s drama and memoir. The Children’s Hour centres on two women running a girls’ school whose lives are damaged by a malicious accusation, while The Little Foxes follows the ruthless Hubbard family as they fight over money and a Southern business deal. Watch on the Rhine turns to anti-fascist politics through a family threatened by a Nazi supporter in Washington. Hellman’s memoirs, including An Unfinished Woman and Pentimento, mix literary autobiography with political recollection and have themselves generated debate about factual reliability. Her dialogue is sharp and confrontational. For discovery, the work connects most naturally with twentieth-century American theatre, political drama and literary memoir. Read more Less
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