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Reception | Barbara Pym | The sales of this second novel nearly doubled those of Pym's first: Excellent Women sold 5,477 copies in the two months to June 1952, while Some Tame Gazelle sold only 3,722 in the thirteen years... |
Reception | Penelope Mortimer | The novel was a Book Society
choice, Lord, Graham. John Mortimer, The Devil’s Advocate. The Unauthorised Biography. Orion. 69 Mortimer, Penelope. About Time Too: 1940-1978. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 50 |
Reception | Nancy Mitford | This enormously successful was also well reviewed. It was a Book Society
Choice, and earned NM
over £7,000 in the first six months, funding her move from England to Paris. Hastings, Selina. Nancy Mitford: A Biography. Hamish Hamilton. 168 Fraser, Antonia. “A Most Superior Street”. Spectator.co.uk. Champagne for the brain. |
Reception | Nancy Mitford | Love in a Cold Climate enjoyed great popularity. It was the first novel to be simultaneously chosen as Book of the Month by the Book Society
, the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard. Mitford, Nancy. “Critical Materials”. Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford, edited by Charlotte Mosley, Hodder and Stoughton, p. various pages. 200 |
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. 157-8 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 | 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 |
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 | 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 |
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