Phyllis Bottome

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Phyllis Forbes-Dennis (May 31, 1884 – August 22, 1963) was a British novelist and short story writer who wrote under her birth name, Phyllis Bottome. She was born in Rochester, Kent to an American clergyman, Rev. William Macdonald Bottome and Mary (Leatham) Bottome. She married A.E. Forbes-Dennis in 1917. [1]

She had several works adapted to film.[2] In addition to fiction she is also known as an Adlerian who wrote a biography of Alfred Adler.[3]

[edit] Education

Bottome studied psychoanalysis under Alfred Adler while in Vienna [4]. This would become useful in her work later on.

[edit] Books

She wrote her first novel when she was just seventeen.

In 1935, her novel Private Worlds was made into a film. Set in a psychiatric clinic, Bottome's knowledge of psychoanalysis proved useful in creating a realistic scene. Bottome saw her share of trouble with Danger Signal which the Hays Office forbade from becoming a Hollywood film. Germany became Bottome's home in the late 1930s[5] and it inspired her to pen The Mortal Storm, a film which was the first to mention Hitler's name and be set in Nazi Germany.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature, edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, New York, The H. W. Wilson Company, 1942.
  2. ^ Phyllis Bottome at the Internet Movie Database
  3. ^ Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing
  4. ^ Dumont, Herve. Frank Borzage. London: McFarland & Company, 2006.
  5. ^ Dumont, Herve. Frank Borzage. London: McFarland & Company, 2006.
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