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Armiger Barclay
Standard Name: Barclay, Armiger
Used Form: Armiger Barcynsky
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Hélène Barcynska | The names of Marguerite Barclay
and Armiger Barclay
appeared jointly on a romance entitled The Activities of Lavie Jutt. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Hélène Barcynska | Under pressure from her parents, Marguerite Jervis became engaged to the eminently suitable Reggie. He gave her a superb ring; people gave her presents; but she looked on marriage merely as exchanging a homely... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Hélène Barcynska | The acquaintance of Marguerite Jervis with Armiger Barclay
resulted from another chance encounter (through the daughter of the house where he was lodging). She already knew his satirical writing. Her description mentions his foreign appearance... |
| Employer | Hélène Barcynska | She grew to hate her weekly trips to London as her husband
's agent, dressed to his specifications. Barcynska, Hélène. Full and Frank: The Private Life of a Woman Novelist. Hurst and Blackett. 86 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Hélène Barcynska | According to HB
's own account, it was money that separated her from her first husband
, as money had brought them together. While they were living alone for cheapness she sold a story as... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Barcynska | HB
's first marriage was a milestone in her early writing career. Armiger Barclay
taught her how to punctuate, to paragraph, to type, how to display my goods. Barcynska, Hélène. Full and Frank: The Private Life of a Woman Novelist. Hurst and Blackett. 52 |
| Literary responses | Hélène Barcynska | Marguerite's husband, Armiger Barclay
, having criticised the plan for this novel as not suitable for family reading, found it when finished daring and provocative (qualities which its author denied). Barcynska, Hélène. Full and Frank: The Private Life of a Woman Novelist. Hurst and Blackett. 57, 66-7 |
| Textual Production | Hélène Barcynska | One of the earliest joint publications by Marguerite
and Armiger Barclay
was an anonymous sentimental novel which the Bodleian Library
catalogue dates 1910, tentatively but improbably, since they did not marry till 1911. It is... |
| Textual Production | Hélène Barcynska | It is often referred to as her first novel (presumably in part because The Little Mother Who Sits at Home was presented as non-fiction). “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 55957 (11 March 1964): 15 |
| Textual Production | Hélène Barcynska | Years later HB
was moved to write an autobiographical article of 12,000 words to refute something similar by Armiger Barclay
in which he claimed to be the author of The Honey-Pot. It was through... |
| Textual Production | Hélène Barcynska | Pseudonyms, and their financial implications, ended HB
's first marriage. Armiger Barclay
wanted her to write not as Sandys, under which name she reaped her own profits, but as Barcynska, which funnelled her earnings to... |
| Textual Production | Hélène Barcynska | After her implicit agreement with her estranged husband
over Pretty Dear (that he could continue to take half her profits for publications under the name of Barcynska), Marguerite Barclay submitted to Woman's Weekly a new... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Hélène Barcynska | Marguerite Jervis
married at Aylesbury registry office, without affection but intending a literary partnership, a writer or journalist, said to be the son of a Polish (naturalized British) Count: Armiger Barclay, formerly Barcynsky
. |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Hélène Barcynska | HB
seems to have resumed writing as Countess Barcynska after Armiger Barclay
died. Let the Storm Burst, a Barcynska novel of 1941, deals with the impact of the Second World War, and claims... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Hélène Barcynska | HB
, having lived for years apart from her first husband
, met Welsh writer (David) Caradoc Evans
. The week of their first meeting he gave her a Bible inscribed to her as Marguerite... |
Timeline
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Texts
Barcynska, Hélène, and Armiger Barclay. Letters from Fleet Street. Frank Palmer, 1910.
Barcynska, Hélène, and Armiger Barclay. The Activities of Lavie Jutt. Stanley Paul and Co., 1911.