Robert Liddell

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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She found Bucharest a surprise, having done little travelling and been able to secure only an out-of-date guidebook.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...