Robert Liddell

Several more visits to Greece followed from (beginning with one in 1959), on which she travelled by herself. In May 1961 she was in Athens, Paros, and the Peloponnesus. The following year...

She found Bucharest a surprise, having done little travelling and been able to secure only an out-of-date guidebook. Early impressions included the urban luxury of shops and restaurants, the squalor of beggars, the gradual permeation...

In many ways this novel reflects BP 's undergraduate years at Oxford , featuring characters and episodes based partly on herself, her sister, and her friends or acquaintances. Among these, Henry Harvey and the future...

In a letter to Philip LarkinBP wrote that she felt she had been treated very badly by Cape , but that she was also not altogether surprised. For one thing she knew that other...

It appears that at this date BP admired (as did so many German women of analogous background) the ritual, the pageantry, perhaps the swaggering masculinity connected with National Socialism . Some of her English friends...

Her friend Robert Liddell responded with violent disapproval to the posthumous publication of works which BP had without final revision. He called it scraping the meat off Barbara's bones.

This became BP 's most widely-reviewed text, and received a mixed reception. Robert Liddell was again outraged, calling this a dreadful book which had only been made possible by the betrayal of Pym's friends in...

At Mrs. Lippincote's set the tone for reception of ET by attracting very mixed reviews. She treasured praise from L. P. Hartley , Richard Church (who was reminded of Woolf 's Mrs Dalloway), and...

Like ET 's first book, this was praised by distinguished but not unanimous voices: Elizabeth Bowen found an exciting distinction about every page, and Rosamond Lehmann noted the stripped, piercing feminine wit and called ET

During the early part of ICB 's career she was little regarded or understood. Raymond Mortimer was one of the first to perceive her quality, and she quickly began to attract the attention of younger...

Julia Strachey and Pamela Hansford Johnson both slammed A Wreath of Roses.ET herself felt that it expanded her range, but that the result was not successful: that she had produced a cold...

Reviews of A Game of Hide and Seek included high praise from Marghanita Laski and Elizabeth Bowen (some consolation to ET for her problems with her US publisher), but also carping which she found deeply...

Ivy Compton-Burnett wrote to her friend ET of her great and lasting pleasure in this novel. The Book Marketing Council included it on its list of Best Novels of Our Time. Nevertheless most...

British Book News judged ET to be at the top of her form in these stories, but they were savaged by Walter Allen , who used a damaging comparison with Jan Struther 's...

Liddell responded warmly to these accounts, whose detail, he felt, was really literature. Taylor began asking for letters to be destroyed when her cancer recurred early in the year of her death, and Liddell complied.