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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Dorothy Wellesley | Horses, having gone forward into Poems of Ten Years, 1924-1934, was selected by W. B. Yeats
for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1935, and by Philip Larkin
for The Oxford Book... |
Textual Production | Dorothy Wellesley | Under her editorship the list included Frances Cornford
, Joan Adeney Easdale
, Ida Graves
, Vita Sackville-West
, Margaret Thomas
(as editor), Julian Bell
, Cecil Day-Lewis
, John Lehmann
, F. L. Lucas |
Reception | Muriel Spark | MS
attended a party at the Ritz given by Carl H. Pforzheimer
for people who had written about the Shelleys, where she met Cecil Day Lewis
and Edmund Blunden
. Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable. 201 |
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 |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | Elizabeth Bowen
published an appreciative review of this novel in The New Statesman and Nation on 11 July 1936. LeStourgeon, Diana. Rosamond Lehmann. Twayne. 87, 148 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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 |