MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen.
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Literary responses | Ethel M. Dell | The implications of homosexual paedophilia (whose existence Dell was almost certainly unaware of) caused merriment rather than scandal. Rebecca West
published in the New Statesman a few years later an article entitled The Posh Horse... |
Literary responses | Amber Reeves | After the appearance of her first three novels, two critics gave AR
a significant place in accounts of the current state of fiction. R. Brimley Johnson
characterised her as a sex-explorer, free from either... |
Literary responses | Viola Meynell | D. H. Lawrence
, when he saw the first chapter of this book, said it was better than anything [VM
had] done. MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen. 150 |
Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | The first reviewer, in the Sunday Observer, found DR
's narrative strategy extraordinary, but remarkably clear. He noted that her leaving the reader without explanations or apologies was not in the least troubling or... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | Some of Richardson's readers considered that she, like Joyce
, focused more than necessary on the seamier details of life. Reviewers were not altogether impressed by this novel. Reviewing Richardson again in the Athenæum in... |
Literary responses | Lady Cynthia Asquith | D. H. Lawrence
blamed LCA
's class-consciousness on the basis of her diaries. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 127 |
Literary responses | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Robin Hone
, reviewing, found a genial mist of restrained and charitable recollection, which ignored such jarring contrasts as that between this time and the First World War which was to follow, or between D. H. Lawrence |
Literary responses | Constance Garnett | Yet her translations created an amazing legacy. D. H. Lawrence
, a friend of her husband
's, compared the couple's writing styles in these terms: Edward would rack his brain and suffer while his wife,... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Stella Gibbons | Such earthy regionalists—who include Thomas Hardy
and D. H. Lawrence
, as well as Webb
and Kaye-Smith
—become the butt of SG
's satire in Cold Comfort Farm. Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury. 66, 112 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Wickham | Some of the most interesting poems first published in this collection are the playful or satirical responses to other writers. To Men answers a poem of the same title by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
, whose... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | As a tribute to institutions of shared literacy and collective engagement, many of the stories here involve reading within and through the public sphere. Two are dedicated to the friendship between D. H. Lawrence
and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Egerton | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Ellen Harrison | JEH
's work exerted a palpable influence on the Modernist movement in literature, and both her persona and her life's work were represented, sometimes in much modified form, in many creative texts. Critic Julia Briggs |
Intertextuality and Influence | Philip Larkin | His youthful letters to Sutton are clotted with obscenities in a schoolboy manner, boring and embarrassing to a later generation: My tooth still aches. Balls & anus! I feel shat upon. Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press. 5 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Agatha Christie | Around 1910, recovering from influenza, AC
wrote an occult story about dreams and delirium entitled The House of Beauty; it was influenced by the work of D. H. Lawrence
. She sent the story... |
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