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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 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jane Howard | Her friends during the 1950s included Stephen
and Natasha Spender
, Alec Waugh
, Margaret Lane
, Malcolm Sargent
, and Joyce Grenfell
. She also met Cyril Connolly
, Olivia Manning
, Stevie Smith |
Occupation | Elizabeth Jane Howard | In winter 1953 EJH
, aged about thirty, became an editor at Chatto and Windus
, which was then run by Norah Smallwood
and Ian Parsons
. She read submitted manuscripts, wrote reports on them... |
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 |
Fictionalization | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Cecil Day-Lewis
wrote Remembering Con Markievicz early in his career. Smith, D. J. “The Countess and the Poets: Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz in the Work of Irish Writers”. Journal of Irish Literature, Vol. 12 , No. 1, pp. 3-63. 60 |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | She finished writing this book in St Deiniol's Library
near Hawarden Castle, repository of the collection of William Ewart Gladstone
, and included in her novel all the flower names in a Victorian book... |
Textual Production | Lilian Bowes Lyon | LBL
published her fourth book of verse, Evening in Stepney, and Other Poems, ranked by Cecil Day-Lewis
as her first volume of consistently mature work. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Day-Lewis, Cecil, and Lilian Bowes Lyon. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Jonathan Cape, pp. 11-16. 11 |
Textual Production | Lilian Bowes Lyon | In the last year of her life LBL
published her Collected Poems, with an introduction by Cecil Day-Lewis
. Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge. 42n1 |
Literary responses | Lilian Bowes Lyon | Cecil Day-Lewis
later took this volume to represent, alone, her early period. He found it clean in outline, of a decisive, spontaneous simplicity at its best . . . but never flat.He noted her... |
Textual Features | Lilian Bowes Lyon | Cecil Day Lewis
takes these to represent her middle period, side-tracked from her true bent by the compelling mannerisms of Hopkins
and the more public preoccupations of the 'thirties, and therefore showing a sense of... |
Literary responses | Lilian Bowes Lyon | Day-Lewis
rejoiced that this poem was not at all a piece of stark social realism, but a set of meditations upon the images and spiritual issues of war. He felt that it deserved more attention... |
Textual Features | Lilian Bowes Lyon | Day-Lewis
heard an echo of Gerard Manley Hopkins
in some of her compounds, like oat-field's silver-water sail. Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge. 40 |
Literary responses | Lilian Bowes Lyon | Day-Lewis
, though he wrote enthusiastically of individual poems, feared before this volume's publication to make exorbitant claims that would darken judgement. Day-Lewis, Cecil, and Lilian Bowes Lyon. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Jonathan Cape, pp. 11-16. 15 |
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