„Milá paní B.“ Výběrová edice korespondence Bohuslavy Růženy Bradbrookové a Otakara Vočadla
“Dear Mrs. B.” Selected Correspondence of Bohuslava Růžena Bradbrook and Otakar Vočadlo

Summary/Abstract: The selected correspondence of Bohuslava Růžena Bradbrook (née Nečasová) reveals her contact with the eminent Anglicist Otakar Vočadlo. The correspondence ranges from 1956 to 1974. The everyday worries of both correspondents are reflected there. After leaving Czechoslovakia, Nečasová had to struggle with living in refugee camps and the complex process of seeking asylum, first in Ireland and then in Great Briain where, after successfully completing her studies, she established herself at Bangor University. Vočadlo, although he was a world-famous Anglicist with many contacts (or perhaps precisely because of that), had to face political pressure after February 1948, which meant his departure from the university. In their correspondence, however, what is represented most significantly is the subject of literary research and scholarship on the life and work of Karel Čapek. This is a theme to which both correspondents dedicated their entire lives, which in Vočadlo’s case also involved his personal friendship with Čapek. The correspondence shows what the opportunities for and state of research were in Czechoslovakia and Great Britain at the time, while also offering insights into the context of politics and society in both places.

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