Anthony Dymoke Powell

Novelist Anthony Powell was AF 's uncle by marriage (his wife being born a Pakenham). Perhaps not surprisingly in this household full of literary creativity, three of AF's siblings—her sisters Rachel and Judith , and...

Another sister, Rachel , became a poet, and the youngest sister, Catherine (who died early), a journalist. Their eldest brother, Thomas , became another historian. The novelist Anthony Powell married into the Pakenham family.

Of this novel ICB wrote, I have never had such superficial reviews. They did, however, praise the book, especially in the case of reviewers who were also novelists, like Elizabeth Bowen , Pamela Hansford Johnson

Anthony Powell reviewed this novel badly in the Times Literary Supplement, but he was in a minority. In The TimesOliver Prescott praised it as constantly interesting, though not emotionally powerful, with...

The reviewer for the TLS was Anthony Powell , who gave a sympathetic account of the book but noted that the topic had taken all the author's ingenuity to weld into a workmanlike novel, that...

Responses to the series varied widely. Anthony Powell welcomed the first of the trilogy in the Times Literary Supplement, noting that it combined its serious portrayal of a middle-aged civilian caught up in war...

The half-title of volume 3 reads Leland's Itinerary in Wales; the other volumes read Leland's Itinerary in England and Wales. A facsimile reprint, issued by Centaur Press in 1964 and weighing almost three...

The first trilogy draws on OM 's experience of the early years of the Second World War in eastern Europe. In both trilogies, British national concerns are disconcertingly filtered through people whose priorities and loyalties...