Robert Liddell

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.

Friends said that ET was very shy, but cared very much for very few people. She was lucky in that Ivy Compton-Burnett (who was a generation older than she was, and notoriously difficult) and...

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...

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

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...