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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Dylan Thomas | His first serious love-affair was with Pamela Hansford Johnson
, like him an aspiring writer. They corresponded for several months before they met and were, as they had expected to be, mutually attracted. They fell... |
Friends, Associates | Olivia Manning | OM
's friends included a number of fellow-writers: William Gerhardi
, Ivy Compton-Burnett
(whom she had first met before the war, at a party given by Rose Macaulay
, and whose work she deeply admired),... |
Friends, Associates | Susan Hill | While studying at King's CollegeSH
, an aspiring writer, wrote to novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson
and her writer husband C. P. Snow
for advice on the profession. The couple answered her letters and even... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Muriel Spark | In a private joke, MS
filled Dougal's notes for his ghosted autobiography with clichés like thrilled to his touch,living a lie, etc., every one of which she had found in the published writings of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Hill | I would come home, do my homework, and then write my novel in what little time was left. Sanderson, Caroline. “Interview, Susan Hill”. Mslexia, No. 48, pp. 13 -15. 14 |
Literary responses | Aldous Huxley | This text, wrote novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson
, opened miraculous doors for her and a whole group of her literary-minded young friends. Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner, 1974. 82 |
Literary responses | F. Tennyson Jesse | The New Yorker described the letters as having vigour, clarity, humour and elegance, and found FTJ
and her husband a tough pair of gentle writers. Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984. 213 |
Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | |
Literary responses | Joanna Cannan | These books were praised by a whole roster of other women novelists: Elizabeth Bowen
, Phyllis Bentley
, and Pamela Hansford Johnson
. Bowen observed of the first that there was much more to this... |
Literary responses | Agatha Christie | AC
, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, received the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award (1954), the degree of DLitt from the University of Exeter
(1961), and a letter addressed simply... |
Literary responses | Olivia Manning | Amid a chorus of praise for this novel, Pamela Hansford Johnson
's statement that it was among the ten best novels written by women in the past twenty-five years attracted ridicule for its mathematical approach... |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Leonard Woolf's decision proved a mistake. The book was not only praised to the skies by young, advanced reviewers, but also made the secondary Book of the Month for May by the newly-formed Book Society |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Pamela Hansford Johnson
thought this both the most attractive and one of the finest of ICB
's books, verging on the lyrical. Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner, 1974. Johnson, Important 193, 195 |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Of this novel ICB
wrote, I have never had such superficial reviews. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 190 |
Literary responses | Muriel Spark | The London theatre critics were scathing, with only two exceptions (though one of these, Harold Hobson
, carried a lot of weight). Pamela Hansford Johnson
trounced the play on the BBC
's radio programme The... |