MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002.
61, 65
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Dedications | G. B. Stern | The latter title dates from the first US edition, 1925. The Virago
edition of 1987 has an introduction by Julia Neuberger
. This work (dedicated to John Galsworthy
) was followed by A Deputy was... |
Education | Viola Meynell | After leaving school at sixteen, VM
read widely on her own, especially English authors: George Eliot
, Dickens
, George Meredith
, Arnold Bennett
, John Galsworthy
, and Thomas Hardy
. MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002. 61, 65 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Cecily Mackworth | CM
later wrote that the search for love was interwoven with many events of her life; she felt her judgement was poor in matters of the heart, and connected this with the loss of her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was IT
's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Hunt | VH
met Ford Madox Hueffer
, later Ford Madox Ford, at a London dinner party held by John Galsworthy
. Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990. 136 |
Friends, Associates | Frances Bellerby | She attended seriously to becoming a writer, and with this in view attended the inaugural meeting of the Young PEN Club
on 4 October 1928, where she was introduced to John Galsworthy
. Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986. 15 |
Friends, Associates | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | On her first attendance at PEN
, taken there by an American friend, Sarah MacConnell
, she met Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
(whom she took to at once), Galsworthy
(whose work she much admired), Roma Wilson |
Friends, Associates | Constance Garnett | Their friends included several notable writers: D. H. Lawrence
, Joseph Conrad
, and John Galsworthy
. Humanities Research Center, University of Texas. The Garnetts: A Literary Family. University of Texas. 3 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
's correspondents included Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
, Alice Paul
, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
, Elizabeth Robins
, Helena Swanwick
, Henry Nevinson
, Havelock Ellis
, John Galsworthy
, Victor Gollancz
, A. R. Orage |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | She became a close friend of Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson
, of Hertha Ayrton
, physicist and suffragist, and of Ayrton's daughter, Barbara Gould
. These two women, mother and daughter, embodied a thread linking... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kate O'Brien | Lorna Reynolds
and Eavan Boland
liken this novel to the work of John Galsworthy
, as it is the saga of several generations of an Irish family building a business and growing in wealth. Boland, Eavan, and Kate O’Brien. “Introduction”. The Last of Summer, Virago, 1990, p. v - xv. xi |
Intertextuality and Influence | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | As a child GHSimagined that a person, particularly a lady, would have to be something very unusual to produce real books. Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds. 37-8 |
Leisure and Society | Ann Bridge | AB
says that after emerging into what she calls, with reference to John Galsworthy
, the almost Forsyte-ian stodginess of rich upper-middle-class London, she gradually broke away on my own account into more entertaining circles... |
Literary responses | Noel Streatfeild | NS
's first fan letter came from John Galsworthy
, to say the book was a tremendously good first novel and so amusing. Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head, 1961. 22 |
Literary responses | Flora Macdonald Mayor | Reviewers called this apparently unreadable, TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 4045 (10 October 1980): 1142 Hill, Susan, and Flora Macdonald Mayor. The Third Miss Symons, Virago, 1980, p. n.p. prelims |