Rosamond Lehmann

03 February 1901 - 14 March 1990

Standard Name: Lehmann, Rosamond

Birth Name: Rosamond Nina Lehmann

RL has received less critical attention than other women modernists, especially her closest literary colleagues Elizabeth Bowen and Virginia Woolf . However, after the reprinting of her work in the 1980s, her seven novels, her short stories, and one play became much better known. After the unexpected death of her daughter, RL ceased writing for about seven years. When she resumed she produced only one more novel, in addition to a memoir and spiritualist writings.

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Friends, Associates	Stevie Smith	SS developed lasting friendships with Naomi Mitchison and Rosamond Lehmann , both of whom reviewed her work. She was also close to US poet Naomi Replansky , with whom she corresponded before they met in 1969. Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage. 298-9
Friends, Associates	E. B. C. Jones	Her Cambridge friends included such literary names as Rosamond Lehmann and George (Dadie) Rylands . Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates	Julia Strachey	Their friends included in Newcastle Quentin and Anne Olivier Bell , Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown. 228, 230-1 while in London they entertained T. S. Eliot , Rosamond Lehmann , and Stephen Spender , among others. Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown. 208, 252
Friends, Associates	Dora Carrington	Guests here included some of the women who were to be closest to Carrington until her death: Dorelia John (wife of Augustus John , and now a neighbour), writer Rosamond Lehmann , and Julia Strachey
Health	Elizabeth Bowen	EB suffered from recurrent bouts of bronchitis and a chronic smoker's cough. In 1972, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and underwent radium treatment. She lost her voice and had considerable difficulty breathing. She was...
Intertextuality and Influence	Simone de Beauvoir	The second part of her first section, Facts and Myths, draws valuably on analysis of male writers. SB reads Stendhal as decidedly feministic: Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. Translator Parshley, H. M., Jonathan Cape. 255 he not only values liberty but accepts it as...
Leisure and Society	Eleanor Farjeon	EF seems never to have read the modernist male poets, Eliot or Pound or Auden; however, she did read and appreciate such women as Rosamond Lehmann , Storm Jameson , Katherine Mansfield , and Virginia Woolf . Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae. 181
Literary responses	E. H. Young	The New York Times Book Review found this book charmingly realistic; 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. 315 V. S. Pritchett thought it typical of fiction by women in its fine discrimination of character. It made some reviewers think of...
Literary responses	Ivy Compton-Burnett	Margaret Jourdain (herself the author of many books in print) told the antiquarian Joan Evans , Ivy has written a book and I expect it's very bad. We have decided I shan't read it and...
Literary responses	Betty Miller	Rosamond Lehmann praised this novel in a letter as intelligent, brave enough to tackle a serious moral problem, written with wonderful vividness and sensitivity, and excellent in its character-drawing of men as well as women...
Literary responses	Mary Renault	Early reviews were discouraging. Anthony West in The New Statesman and Nation criticised MR for ignoring the significant upheavals in a real world at war. Rosamond Lehmann , in The Spectator, perceptively noted that...
Literary responses	Stella Gibbons	SG 's Cold Comfort Farm won the Prix Femina Vie-Heureuse, worth forty pounds (as Webb 's Precious Bane had done only seven years previously). Gibbons's award was presented in June 1934. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 5: 303-4 and 303n1
Literary responses	Dorothy L. Sayers	Q. D. Leavis disliked this novel, and wrote a scathing review of it and its successor, Busman's Honeymoon, in Scrutiny. Leavis attacked DLS 's reputation for literariness, holding it against her that...
Literary responses	Stevie Smith	Novel on Yellow Paper was an immediate critical success. Appreciation expressed in reviews by Naomi Mitchison and Rosamond Lehmann laid the foundations for SS 's friendships with these and other writers. Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber. 125 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. A poet, Robert Nichols
Literary responses	Elizabeth Bowen	Bowen's writing style was criticised as strained and contorted. Hoogland, Renée C. Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing. New York University Press. 119 However, a current critic claims that the textual eccentricities Hoogland, Renée C. Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing. New York University Press. 119 are integral to the novel's theme. Rosamond Lehmann expressed her admiration of The Heat of...

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