Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, No. 1, pp. 43 - 7.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Mew | Young Charlotte developed an adolescent crush on her headmistress, Lucy Harrison
, who was a niece of writer Mary Howitt
, a charismatic Quaker, and a scholar of English literature. Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, No. 1, pp. 43 - 7. 44 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Mew | Mew's biographer Penelope Fitzgerald
believes that CM
developed an unrequited attraction to D'Arcy, but Val Warner
has more recently expressed doubt about some of Fitzgerald's evidence. Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, 1984, p. 240 pp. 86 Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, No. 1, pp. 43 - 7. 44-5 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Peck | He was the father of the novelist Penelope Fitzgerald
, who was thus WP
's niece. She published a book on the famous Knox brothers which ignores WP. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Stevie Smith | SS
had lived with her aunt at Palmers Green and patiently nursed her through gradually deteriorating health. Their relationship was very close; her death left Stevie lonely as well as deeply grieved. The next year... |
Friends, Associates | Stevie Smith | In 1969 her friend Penelope Fitzgerald
wrote a touching account of a visit to Smith, who produced lunch after much struggle in the kitchen, and appeared to her a [c]ombination of shrewd business woman, genuine... |
Friends, Associates | A. S. Byatt | Iris Murdoch
became a friend of ASB
by 1968 and an important friend by May 1970. When Byatt was bereaved, Murdoch broke her engagements to be with her. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002. 518-19 and n106 |
Literary responses | Ada Leverson | The reviewer for British Book News felt that the appeal of AL
's works lay in the grace of their prose, the wit of their dialogue, and the rich elegance of their period [Edwardian] setting... |
Literary responses | Candia McWilliam | Penelope Fitzgerald
reviewed this book with enthusiasm, calling McWilliam this most original and unsettling of writers, and the novel brilliant and quite unstraightforward, with its glittering substance and . . . uneasy shadow.Fitzgerald revelled... |
Literary responses | Barbara Pym | Reviewers, including Elaine Feinstein
and Penelope Fitzgerald
, Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994. 213 |
Literary responses | Zadie Smith | One of ZS
's May Anthology stories led to her being accepted by the literary agency Andrew Wiley
. Tew, Philip. Zadie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 112 Tew, Philip. Zadie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 151 |
Literary responses | Anne Enright | Penelope Fitzgerald
wrote that these stories show a tender heart, with great pity for women, who seem set on their course of hard daily work and uncomfortable dreams. Fitzgerald, Penelope. “Bringers of Ill Luck and Bad Weather”. London Review of Books, No. 5, p. 8. |
Occupation | A. S. Byatt | ASB
began teaching at Westminster Tutors
, a cramming establishment preparing students, mostly girls, for university entrance. She taught there till 1965, and one of her colleagues was Penelope Fitzgerald
. Byatt, A. S. A. S. Byatt. |
Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | In 2010 Persephone Books
reprinted this story or novella together with another one by MO
, The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow, giving the combined book the title of the latter. The combination of these... |
Publishing | Winifred Peck | House-Bound, first published in 1942, was re-issued by Persephone Books
in 2007, with an introduction by the late Penelope Fitzgerald
, WP
's niece and fellow novelist. The edition had been planned for almost... |
Textual Features | Susan Hill | This is a remarkably informal quarterly: the sketch on its cover shows a bouncing mad-hatter figure with a bunch of flowers in his hand and a pile of books on his head. While endearingly open... |