The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes the respectful reviews granted CH
's work during her lifetime in such influential journals as the Athenæum, the Times Literary Supplement, and The Spectator. She...
Reception
Elspeth Huxley
This book was a great success. It was twice reprinted before the outbreak of the second world war interrupted its career; in 1999 it was issued in Penguin
's Twentieth Century World Classics series. EH
Reception
Mary Fortune
MF
's work first began to reappear in anthologies in 1987; some of her poetry and prose was subsequently reprinted in slim volumes by the Mulini Press
in 1995 and 2009, as well as in...
Reception
Gertrude Stein
Reviewers of GS
saw this work as embodying a new naturalism.
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
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H. G. Wells
read Three Lives with deepening pleasure & admiration,
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
This was reprinted by Penguin
in 1991 with Happenstance and under the overall title of the earlier book, with the two originally separate novels titled The Husband's Story and The Wife's Story. North American...
Publishing
Margaret Mead
She did her research during eight months spent in Samoa, during which she learned the language, conducted interviews, and was chosen the taupou, or ceremonial virgin representative of a village she stayed at.
Banner, Lois W. Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle. Alfred A. Knopf, p. xii; 540 pp.
When MR
received her copy of The Persian Boy, she was startled to discover that she had been summarily transferred to Allen Lane
, the hardback division of Penguin
. After the death of...
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Julia Strachey
The novel's first published title was inspired, according to Frances Partridge
, by Virginia Woolf
's description of painter Henry Lamb
as nipped, like a man on a pier.
Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown.
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E. Arnot Robertson
This too she dedicated to, and in reproof of, her husband
, calling him her sailing partner and recalling some words he had used about her, which in the novel she puts in the mouth...
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Margaret Atwood
This book was based on the annual Massey Lectures which Atwood gave in Toronto this year. She was initially unwilling to accept the invitation to speak, but did so on condition that the result would...
Publishing
E. Arnot Robertson
Pin Mill (on the river Orwell, almost an appendage of the larger village of Chelmondiston) is proud of its association with this novel, though EAR
takes second place in its publicity to We...
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