Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Power, M. C.Editor , Trübner and Co., 1864.
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Book Society
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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, 1966. 22 |
| 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, 1958. 118 |
| Reception | Evelyn Waugh | The novel was a Book Society
Choice. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. (7 May 1938): 313 |
| Reception | Storm Jameson | The Hidden River had some bad reviews in influential places, but excellent sales. It was a Book Society
choice, earning £2,500 in English royalties, £268 from Book-of-the-Month Club
in Canada, and a dollar amount... |
| Reception | Evelyn Waugh | This novel was a Book Society
choice. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and Decline and Fall”. Jane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, 2011, pp. 181 -01. 182 |
| Reception | Rosamond Lehmann | This book received very positive reviews from (among others) Elizabeth Janeway
in the New York Times, Elizabeth Bowen
in New Republic, Virginia Peterson
in the New York Herald Tribune, Simon Raven in... |
| Reception | Dorothy Whipple | A reader at Curtis Brown
praised DW
's very shrewd and natural gift of depicting her middle-class characters, while Lord Gorell
at John Murray
wrote: Much her best work and the former was good. Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966. 23 |
| Reception | Lady Cynthia Asquith | The volume was a Book Society
recommendation. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 325 |
| Reception | Olivia Manning | This novel was a Book Society
choice (OM
's third), but was badly reviewed by Nancy Spain
and Viola Garvin
. Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004. 157-8 |
Timeline
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 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
of the Book Society
, founded Pan Books Limited
, with Aubrey Forshaw
as the managing director.