British Book News. British Council.
(1953): 421
Book Society
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Elspeth Huxley | She wrote it in 1946, and revised it in a state of dissatisfaction with her first version. Chatto and Windus
were enthusiastic about it and offered her an advance of £150 and a royalty of... |
| Textual Production | Lettice Cooper | LC
's Fenny (a Book Society
choice, and sometimes called her finest novel), was set in or near Florence during the Second World War and the years just before and after it. |
| Textual Production | Laura Riding | This was the first book LR
published with the new firm of Arthur Barker
in London. She took some trouble to disguise identities, since Barker was worried about potential libel actions. The Book Society
backed... |
| 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. back cover |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Reception | Evelyn Waugh | This novel was a Book Society
choice. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Decline and Fall</span>”;. Jane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, pp. 181-0. 182 |
| 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 | 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. 23 |
| 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 | Colonel
and Mrs Williams
, the owners of Parciau, were far from pleased at finding themselves and their lives portrayed in fiction. Conville, David, and Dorothy Whipple. “Afterword”. The Priory, Persephone Books, pp. 529-36. 533 Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph. 99 |
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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