Mitford, Nancy. “Critical Materials”. Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford, edited by Charlotte Mosley, Hodder and Stoughton, p. various pages.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Reception | E. H. Young | This time The Spectator, pursuing the line of excessive modernist influence, called EHY
a thicker-skinned Virginia Woolf
. . . but hardly less bogged in the undifferentiated welter of phenomenal experience. Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol. 27 , No. 3, pp. 303-31. 307 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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. British Book News. British Council. (1953): 421 |
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