Byatt, A. S. The Matisse Stories. Chatto and Windus, 1993.
prelims
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Mary Gawthorpe | From St Michael's MG
, aged thirteen, won a scholarship to a local high school, but it was awarded without maintenance. (The dictation in the scholarship exam had been about the migration of terns, a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | F. Tennyson Jesse | Her grandmother Emily Tennyson
, the poet's sister, had been engaged to his great friend Arthur Hallam
before she married FTJ
's grandfather years after Hallam's death. A. S. Byatt
has used FTJ
as narrator... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Drabble | Novelist A. S. Byatt
is MD
's older sister. Drabble has observed, about being a younger sister: You are always behind. No matter how hard you try. She will always be older, cleverer, in higher heels. Mackenzie, Suzie. “Mothers and daughters”. Guardian Unlimited. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Kennedy | A later novelist, Barbara Pym
, thought of The Heroes of Clone as pattern for a fiction setting side by side what researchers and biographers write of a person's life and then what really did... |
Literary responses | Evelyn Sharp | In the early twenty-first century A. S. Byatt
discovered ES
when, working on her novel The Children's Book, she asked scholar Jack Zipes
for links between fairy stories and turn-of-the-century socialism and he mentioned Sharp. Byatt, A. S. “Freedom won’t wait”. guardian.co.uk. |
Literary responses | Willa Cather | This novel won the Prix Femina Américain. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, 2003, pp. 9 - 39. 37 |
Literary responses | Pamela Hansford Johnson | This novel marked a step forward in the public valuation of PHJ
. Walter Allen
called it one of the best novels of our time. Lindblad, Ishrat. Pamela Hansford Johnson. Twayne, 1982. 125 |
Literary responses | Evelyn Sharp | A. S. Byatt
in early 2008 found herself interested and excited by this book (then about to be reprinted). She described Sharp as perspicacious, witty and a very good writer. “Back—due to popular demand”. The Guardian, pp. Review 4 - 6. 4 |
Literary responses | Monica Dickens | It was this year that A. S. Byatt
registered in print her deep admiration of MD
(who, for her part, thought Byatt underestimated the humour in her books). “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (2 November 1970): 12 |
Literary responses | Ali Smith | A. S. Byatt
praised Smith's novel as sharp, witty, innovatory and moving, Byatt, A. S. “An exciting event this year has been the publication...”. The Times Literary Supplement, No. 5670, p. 9. 9 |
Literary responses | Ruth Fainlight | |
Literary responses | Hilary Mantel | HM
already features in critical surveys of the modern British novel, such as that by Nick Rennison
, 2004. A. S. Byatt
discusses her (among writers of both sexes including predecessors Elizabeth Bowen
and Muriel Spark |
Literary responses | Muriel Spark | Graham Greene
offered the same accolade as for her previous novel, recognizing its disappointing reception with: What fools the reviewers have been. Greene, Graham. Graham Greene. A Life in Letters. Greene, RichardEditor , Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 317 |
Literary responses | Alice Munro | The Selected Stories was hailed as an important literary event, and produced particularly interesting reviews from A. S. Byatt
and John Updike
. Byatt wrote that Munro was the equal of Chekhov
or de Maupassant |
Literary responses | Muriel Spark | This novel was nominated for the Booker McConnell Prize in the year of its publication. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981. 76 |