“Review of Dodie Smith’ Dear Octopus”. Theatre World.
(October 1938)
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Dodie Smith | Theatre World found this immeasurably Dodie Smith's best play, expressing admiration for her vivid sense of character and situation. “Review of Dodie Smith’ Dear Octopus”. Theatre World. (October 1938) |
Literary responses | Angela Thirkell | This, like all its immediate predecessors, met with excellent reviews, even though Hugh Walpole
regretted its lack of plot. Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth, 1977. 120 |
Literary responses | Margery Allingham | The Sunday Chronicle wrote: One of the best detective stories of today, written by a master of the craft. Martin, Richard. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988. 87 |
Literary responses | Margery Allingham | At a time that MA
had stopped writing both the film story and the mass-circulation serial, she saw herself as making another new start in her career with this book. She called it a novel... |
Literary responses | Margiad Evans | Favourable newspaper reviews came from Compton Mackenzie
and James Agate
. The Daily Mail review pleased ME
particularly by reproducing her frontispiece (though they did not know it to be hers). Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen. Margiad Evans. Seren, 1998. 43 |
Textual Features | Dodie Smith | The play dramatizes various temptations for an accountant's family over the course of a single day. Short, Ernest. Theatrical Cavalcade. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1942. 202 |
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