Compton Mackenzie

The volume contains a selection of Richardson's approximately 1,800 surviving letters, dated from 1901. It includes her personal and professional letters to such correspondents as Bryher , H. D. , Sylvia Beach , Amy Catherine (Jane)

Lesbianism had been the subject of novels in the 1920s and 30s. Virginia Woolf 's Mrs. Dalloway and Elizabeth Bowen 's The Hotel had both been criticised (the latter severely) for sympathetic treatments of emotional...

AW had used Sylvaine's name for a fictional actress flourishing some years before the real June Sylvaine was born. Her publisher, Eyre and Spottiswoode , played safe by withdrawing copies of the book. The case...

MR appreciated Compton Mackenzie 's Extraordinary Women, which dealt openly with lesbians and evaded the censor because it treated lesbianism as comic. She referred to it in a review as a masterpiece of gentle...

MB was admired in her own day by others who prided themselves on the popular touch in their writing: Mark Twain , Walter de la Mare , Compton Mackenzie , and Hugh Walpole , who...

Favourable newspaper reviews came from Compton Mackenzie and James Agate . The Daily Mail review pleased ME particularly by reproducing her frontispiece (though they did not know it to be hers).

To author Compton Mackenzie , this seemed a masterpiece of characterization and delicate humour, of effortless scene-painting and economy of line. The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 153, also considers this to be...

The family of Lady Wemyss were not amused by her transparent portrayal.Compton Mackenzie , however, wrote of the novel that he was certain that everyone he recommended it to would enjoy it. Reviewing...

She had one further piece of good fortune in meeting with Compton Mackenzie (whose grandfather had been friends with Charles Dickens), who read her book in proof, tidied up a few loose utterances, and did...

Released weeks after RH 's The Well of Loneliness, Compton Mackenzie 's novel Extraoradinary Women: Theme and Variations, viewed lesbianism with an amused but ultimately disapproving eye.

LCA 's other sons, after John, were Michael, born on 25 July 1914 at Sussex Place, and Simon , born on 20 August 1919 (after she had planned on having a girl to be...

Through the 1920s, RW had several brief and sometimes conflicted romantic liaisons with men. In 1920 she made some moves towards having an affair with Compton Mackenzie in retaliation for Wells 's continuing infidelities. During...