Book Society

Connections

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Friends, Associates Susanna Watts
In her own more local circle, however, SW was relaxed and good company. She belonged to a Book Society . She was a close friend of the Hutton and the Coltman families and especially, in...
Literary responses Ivy Compton-Burnett
Leonard Woolf's decision proved a mistake. The book was not only praised to the skies by young, advanced reviewers, but also made the secondary Book of the Month for May by the newly-formed Book Society
Occupation Rumer Godden
While living in Highgate RG took to organizing readings: at Foyles bookshop, promoting young poets; at Kenwood House; and for the Arts Council , where she spent two years on the Poetry Panel...
Occupation Pamela Hansford Johnson
PHJ worked occasionally for the BBC from the late 1940s. She later became one of the Critics team (which meant regular recording sessions), and sat on the committee of the Book Society , which she...
Occupation Caroline Frances Cornwallis
CFC led an active life. She remarked that the political unrest of 1822 affected her because she had ordinarily my father's business to transact.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Editor Power, M. C., Trübner and Co.
33
She took part in the Book Society while she lived...
Occupation Pamela Frankau
She participated in Brains Trusts, both on the famous BBC television programme and as a charity event for the Cenacle Convent in Hampstead. She read books for the Book Society jury, but found this...
Publishing Dorothy Whipple
Again she felt sure the book would be a failure, judging it not properly thought out in the beginning, about nothing—stale, flat.
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph.
22
Nevertheless she giggled at the thought of it as a defective offspring...
Publishing Pamela Frankau
At the outset of her career, in the years following Marriage of Harlequin, magazines paid her fantastic prices for short stories.
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
118
This, at the time, meant twenty-five pounds or more. On one occasion...
Reception Pamela Frankau
Reviews were highly positive. The Sunday Times said that PFuses a large canvas with great deftness, and her dialogue is a joy.
Frankau, Pamela. The Willow Cabin. Pan Books.
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John o'London's mentioned her near-genius for story-telling, and the Observer...
Reception Freya Stark
Recommended by the Book Society and the Book Guild , The Southern Gates of Arabia also received high praise in the Daily Telegraph, among other papers. FS , rather surprisingly, was compared to Jane Austen
Reception Christopher St John
The reviewer in British Book News wrote: This admirable volume forms a valuable complement to [Smyth's] own autobiographical works, which are minor masterpieces of English prose.
British Book News. British Council.
(1959): 345
The biography became a Book Society book...
Reception Rumer Godden
RG herself had misgivings about Gypsy, Gypsy, but her publisher Peter Llewelyn Davies wrote of being enchanted by the story.
Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan.
143
Spencer Curtis Brown pointed out that it owed a debt to D. H. Lawrence
Reception Angela Thirkell
It was chosen Book of the Month by the Book Society .
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth.
108
Reception Winifred Holtby
South Riding was enormously successful. It was chosen by the Book Society as their Book of the Month for March, and sold 25,000 copies within the first three weeks of its publication. In 1937 it...
Reception Evelyn Waugh
The novel was a Book Society Choice.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(7 May 1938): 313
Writing in 2010 on the influence of the media on British Prime Ministers, Ferdinand Mount observed: pretty much all you need to know about...

Timeline

By April 1929: The Book Society (first conceived of by Arnold...

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By April 1929

The Book Society (first conceived of by Arnold Bennett ) was launched by Hugh Walpole with himself as chairman; it was the first such society in Britain.

1930: The Book Guild was funded, on the model of...

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1930

The Book Guild was funded, on the model of the Book Society of the previous year, to cater to the needs of the intelligent but not academic (middle-brow) reader.

1944: Hodder and Stoughton, along with Alan Bott...

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1944

Hodder and Stoughton , along with Alan Bott of the Book Society , founded Pan Books Limited , with Aubrey Forshaw as the managing director.

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