TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012].
2705 (4 December 1953): 773
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Family and Intimate relationships | Nancy Mitford | Jessica
, the sister who followed Unity in age, eloped in her teens with a still younger cousin who was off to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Nancy and her husband were despatched as... |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
's Epilogue relates her own anxiety, on the day the book was first published, about its probable reception. She was flooded with relief, joy, gratitude, at finding both Cyril Connolly
and Philip Toynbee |
Literary responses | Kathleen Nott | This book was controversial. Philip Toynbee
called it a rare example of vigorous polemic, witty, hard-hitting and deeply serious. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 2705 (4 December 1953): 773 |
Literary responses | Julia Strachey | In an Observer review written shortly after the novel's reprinting in 1978, Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983. 121, 135 |
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