Max Beerbohm

Writing in the year of its publication, Max Beerbohm argued that the reason for the unusually cordial reception accorded this novel was not (as Ouida's newly warm critics had suggested) that she had...

In An Appreciation of Ouida, Street singled out for praise her genuine and passionate love of beauty . . . and a genuine and passionate hatred of injustice and oppression. Although he noted that...

But word about their plan got out. Summoned to appear before the authorities, they turned themselves in at precisely the moment that the protest was to start. Other suffragettes duly demonstrated in their absence. The...

At the time Max Beerbohm praised the play in the Saturday Review for its unfeminine willingness to tackle a large subject in serious spirit. On the other hand the writer of GP 's obituary...

Among the other poems were a number that dealt with illicit sexuality. Cousin Kate uses ballad metre to explore the sexual double standard and lack of female solidarity. The speaker, a humble cottager seduced by...

Critics found Mrs. Grundy quite boring. Max Beerbohm said in the Saturday Review that most of the characters were conventional stage daubs. The Athenæum maintained that the writing was not the problem, but blamed the...

ES wrote later that at no time in her life did she make intimate friends easily. Most people she had to do with she liked up to a certain point only, but she could count...

In Birmingham CS had become friendly with Coulson Kernahan , through whom she also met Flora Klickmann . Edgar Pemberton brought her acquainted with theatrical figures she deeply admired: Sir Charles Wyndham , and Mary Moore

The story takes place at Geneva in Switzerland (transferred from the Italian scene of the real-llife original), on an estate owned by a Baron Klopstock, among characters of diverse national origins. The protagonist, Lister the...

This novel, another treatment of suffering which looks back to the book of Job, begins when a film director, Tom Richards, falls from a crane on a film set and is taken to...

She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning 's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley plain? She approaches...

GBS often broadcast on the BBC . She reviewed books, and later remembered an encounter with an old typescript of a review of A. E. Gallatin 's Sir Max Beerbohm —Bibliographical Notes, 1944, during...

Other plums were Max Beerbohm , H. G. Wells , Somerset Maugham , J. B. Priestley , and Humbert Wolfe . Questioned by a reporter about the reason for the party, GBS suggested that she...

The writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm was VT 's uncle. A son of her grandfather's second marriage, he retained the original surname. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm...

Michael Burn wrote an introduction for this book, and VT 's half-uncle Max Beerbohm wrote a letter which served as prefatory material. The book draws on a scrapbook or commonplace-book kept by Parsons: hence its...