Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Jane Howard | EJH
met Arthur Koestler
at a party and was bowled over by his whirlwind energy, but when he proposed marriage she had enough sense to counter-suggest living together for some months instead to see how... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jane Howard | When EJH
's old friend and one time lover Cecil Day-Lewis
fell terminally ill with pancreatic cancer, he and his wife Jill Balcon
both came to stay at Lemmons. Day-Lewis died there. Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan. 384-7 Leader, Zachary. The Life of Kingsley Amis. Jonathan Cape. 628-9 |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | She wrote it in 1946, and revised it in a state of dissatisfaction with her first version. Chatto and Windus
were enthusiastic about it and offered her an advance of £150 and a royalty of... |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | She began this book by April 1955, but her writing was interrupted when her mother arrived from Kenya to spend three months in England. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 265 |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information
once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations. Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 524 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jennings | She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin
and Kingsley Amis
. Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her... |
Reception | D. H. Lawrence | Penguin was emboldened to embark on the course of action that led to the trial by the Obscene Publications Act of the previous year, which admitted the defence of literary merit against charges of obscenity... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosamond Lehmann | The novel exhibits the resignation, bitterness, and exhaustion of the times (and possibly the ending of Lehmann's relationship with C. Day-Lewis
). It also contains humour which comes close to madness in the face of... |
Textual Production | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
wrote verse throughout her life. Much of it is personal and occasional. Her abandonment by her lover, C. Day-Lewis
, produced one melancholy lament and one bitter little satirical dirge. Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 291, 317 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
began a sexual relationship with the poet Cecil Day-Lewis
; she knew him a little, and he declared his love for her at dinner together during a bombing raid. Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. St Martin’s Press. 16 Tindall, Gillian. Rosamond Lehmann: An Appreciation. Chatto and Windus; Hogarth Press. 120 Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang. 135 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
was finally abandoned by Cecil Day-Lewis
, who left her to marry the actress Jill Balcon
, a woman twenty-one years younger than himself. Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 281 Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. St Martin’s Press. 16 Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang. 136, 138, 149 |
Residence | Rosamond Lehmann | The year after her devastating parting from Cecil Day-Lewis
, RL
sold her manor house at Long Wittenham, and moved to a flat at 70 Eaton Square in London. Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 299 |
Textual Production | Rosamond Lehmann | Together, RL
and Cecil Day Lewis
launched and edited a literary magazine called Orion, which kept afloat for four issues. Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 240 |
politics | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
made an admired speech. Other speakers included her current husband, Wogan Philipps
, her current lover, Goronwy Rees
, and the man who was to be her great love, Cecil Day Lewis
. Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 1-2 |
Residence | Rosamond Lehmann | This became Cecil Day-Lewis
's second home, and Lehmann adapted the barn to make a studio for her sister Beatrix
. Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 248 Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang. 136 |
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