MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen.
61, 65
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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. 61, 65 |
Textual Production | Penelope Mortimer | PM
also wrote for the cinema. She adapted Galsworthy
's The Apple Tree as a screenplay for Warner Brothers
, but it was decades before the film was made. In June 1972, at the request... |
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, p. v - xv. xi |
Textual Features | Vita Sackville-West | Her first letter to Dear Mrs. Woolf, Sackville-West, Vita. The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Editors DeSalvo, Louise and Mitchell A. Leaska, William Morrow. 47 |
Literary responses | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
received personal congratulations on her stories from Sir Edmund Gosse
and John Galsworthy
. Among reviewers the only unfavourable voice was that of Rebecca West
. S. P. B. Mais
in the Daily Express... |
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 |
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 |
Textual Production | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | In her autobiography she explained the genesis of this book. Robert Hale
, then manager of Jarrolds
, said he was looking for a war book that was not full of mud, blood and obscenity... |
Literary responses | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Galsworthy
's welcoming preface concludes: Human and interesting from page to page; broad, just and tolerant; above all, warm and breathing, it makes you think. Yes, it makes you think. Galsworthy, John, and Gladys Henrietta Schütze. “Foreword”. Mrs. Fischer’s War, p. 7. 7 |
Occupation | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | She served as the club's organizer and hostess. She intended it as a space where fledgling writers could gather and make contact with established authors. Her friend J. D. Beresford
, novelist, was the club's... |
Occupation | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | PEN
stood for Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Editors, Novelists. Forty-five writers and journalists attended the dinner: they all became PEN's first members. John Galsworthy
served as president until 1933. |
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... |
politics | May Sinclair | It was established to encourage friendship and good-will among authors; John Galsworthy
was elected as its first president. |
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... |
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. 22 |
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