Benson, Theodora et al. Muddling Through. Victor Gollancz.
prelims
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Diana Athill | Part one is the story of the publishing houses that DA
worked with. She begins by explaining that business figures (which someone had mentioned as the key to an interesting book about publishing) would not... |
Textual Production | Theodora Benson | |
Author summary | Theodora Benson | TB
published over a thirty-year span in the earlier twentieth century. Most immediately successful among her works in terms of sales were books of the currently fashionable flippant humour, most of them in collaboration with... |
Friends, Associates | Theodora Benson | TB
enjoyed a wide circle of friends both literary and non-literary. The former included Rose Macaulay
and Howard Spring
. She met her future collaborator Betty Askwith
(daughter of an old friend of her mother's)... |
Travel | Theodora Benson | Not long after this she and her friend Betty Askwith
set out together for Greece (which Askwith wanted to visit) and Yugoslavia and Albania (which Benson wanted to visit). The tourist trade was not even... |
Textual Production | Theodora Benson | TB
followed this in 1931 with two novels, Shallow Water (with illustrations by Ward) and Which Way? She collaborated with Betty Askwith
again in Seven Basketfuls, 1932. |
Literary responses | Theodora Benson | Richard Sunne
wrote in the New Statesman and Nation of Shallow Water, Miss Benson's soufflé is perfect, and she serves it under a magical salamander, so that each piece retains its lightness and its... |
Textual Production | Theodora Benson | She followed this the next year with The Unambitious Journey, published for once under the name of The Hon. Theodora Benson, about a journey to Greece, Yugoslavia, and Albania: a... |
Textual Features | Theodora Benson | Her contributors include Louis Golding
on his first time horse-racing and Beverley Nichols
on having an Affaire. Betty Askwith
wrote of being bitten with the travel bug (on a journey in company with TB |
Literary responses | Theodora Benson | Askwith
wrote after Benson's death that the fun they had compiling these books stood quite apart from Benson's serious writing. Askwith, Betty. “Miss Theodora Benson”. Times, No. 57458, p. 8. 8 |
Literary responses | Theodora Benson | Elizabeth Jenkins
wrote that The White Sea Monkey was not only the most terrifying story I ever read, but the most characteristic expression of her, in its agonized compassion and its understanding of the human... |
Literary responses | Theodora Benson | John Betjeman
, reviewing this book in the Daily Herald, called it a beautiful novel. . . . Full of acute feminine observation, drinks, jokes, talk in keeping with its varied characters, atmosphere and... |
Dedications | Theodora Benson | TB
published her first novel, Salad Days, with a dedication to her friend and future collaborator Betty Askwith
. The title-page quotes Shakespeare
's Cleopatra. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Theodora Benson | TB
's next novel, Lobster Quadrille, was written in collaboration with Betty Askwith
(who had already published a book of verse). British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Publishing | Theodora Benson | Together with Betty Askwith
, TB
published Foreigners; or, The World in a Nutshell, a book of humorous sketches with pictures by Nicolas Bentley
; by December it was in its third impression. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |