Cyril Connolly

Standard Name: Connolly, Cyril

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Textual Production Elizabeth Taylor
ET began writing stories early. She finished several in late 1941 and early 1942 which satisfied her at the time without shaking her convictioon that she was not yet writing well. None of these survive...
Textual Production Marghanita Laski
With Claud Cockburn , Cyril Connolly , Kenneth Tynan , Peter Forster , Wynford Vaughan Thomas , and Steven Watson , ML co-wrote the script for the BBC television comedy series Dig This Rhubarb.
Lewisohn, Mark. “Dig This Rhubarb”. The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy.
Reception Cecily Mackworth
She received a five-pound tip for an article on Apollinaire published by Horizon; Cyril Connolly had appealed to readers to supplement his mean rates of pay by a tip for anything they particularly liked.
Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet.
53
Publishing Violet Trefusis
VT published one short story and one essay in Horizon while the magazine was under the editorship of her friend Cyril Connolly .
Literary responses Edith Templeton
The Surprise of Cremona was generally well reviewed. Though the New Yorker described it as delightful and infuriating in about equal proportions, most reviewers agreed that the idiosyncratic account leaned to the delightful.
Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson.
(1957): 908
Literary responses Sylvia Beach
Her friend Cyril Connolly thought this work a charming, gay astringent scrapbook.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
412
Literary responses Elizabeth Bowen
Cyril Connolly expressed his admiration in the New Statesman, where he was reviewing a novel for the first time.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
78
The Hotel was the April 1928 selection of the fairly new Book-of-the-Month Club in...
Literary responses Pamela Hansford Johnson
This book had the kind of scandalous success that PHJ later associated with Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jimnineteen years later. It was considered a signal success, but the kind of success that brought its...
Literary responses E. B. C. Jones
Cyril Connolly called this novel a moving and conscientious study of fondness written with sobriety and grace.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Literary responses Margaret Kennedy
Novelist and critic Charles Morgan reviewed the London stage performance for the Times, praising the brutal vulgarity of Sanger's mistress Linda, but finding the dramatised version of Florence too harsh.
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann.
79-80
Cyril Connolly ...
Literary responses Rosamond Lehmann
RL 's Epilogue relates her own anxiety, on the day the book was first published, about its probable reception. She was flooded with relief, joy, gratitude, at finding both Cyril Connolly and Philip Toynbee
Health Elizabeth Bowen
EB suffered from recurrent bouts of bronchitis and a chronic smoker's cough. In 1972, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and underwent radium treatment. She lost her voice and had considerable difficulty breathing. She was...
Friends, Associates Vita Sackville-West
VSW was rather apt to turn her friends into lovers. She also developed a strong rapport with more than one man with whose wife she was sexually involved: Denys Trefusis and later Roy Campbell ...
Friends, Associates Sybille Bedford
Introduced to Aldous Huxley and his wife Maria by the South African poet Roy Campbell while at Sanary, the young SB became their intimate friend.
Bedford, Sybille. Quicksands. Counterpoint.
249-50
She was later embarrassed by her earlier admiration for...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Bowen
Frequent guests at Bowen's Court (where, says Victoria Glendinning, they ate and drank royally)
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
254
included William Plomer , Sean O'Faolain , and Cyril Connolly . Virginia Woolf stayed there once; Iris Murdoch also...

Timeline

April 1935: Heinemann, publisher of Bessie Cotter by...

Writing climate item

April 1935

Heinemann , publisher of Bessie Cotter by Wallace Smith , was fined £100 after pleading guilty to a charge of obscene libel.

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