Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Vita Sackville-West | Woolf reported reading the novel all in a gulp with pleasure in bed; very well done I think. |
| Reception | Muriel Spark | This novel was chosen a Book Society
recommendation (of which between six and ten were selected per month); it was not the choice of the month, since the panel felt it was too morbid—deeply... |
| 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 | 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 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 | 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. 23 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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