Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Whipple | Henry Whipple, who worked as a civil servant in education, was Dorothy's boss at the time. His work took them to conferences here and there, and meetings of the W. E .A. Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966. 84 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | LCA
's mother, Mary
, Lady Wemyss, was born a Wyndham, a descendent of the writer Félicité, Mme de Genlis
, and of her royal lover Philippe Egalité
, Duc d'Orléans (who was also father... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Kennedy | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Having joined the army, Herbert Asquith
had a spell at a training camp on Salisbury Plain before being posted to the Front in France. By August 1916 he was feeling as if he would... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sir J. M. Barrie | Without children of his own, Barrie had a habit of monopolising the children of friends, for whom he invented elaborate games. Among children so situated were Bevil Quiller-Couch
(who was later the fiancé of the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mollie Panter-Downes | MPD
married future businessman Clare Robinson
, whom she had met the year before when he was still an undergraduate. Nicola Beauman
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says Clare Robinson was a businessman... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Bridge | At that time the Foreign Office, working in London, was distinct from the Diplomatic Service
, working abroad. It was not until after the First World War that Owen O'Malley became a diplomat overseas. He... |
Literary responses | Mollie Panter-Downes | MPD
, who disparaged her own powers of invention and ear for dialogue, called this her only novel. Beauman, Nicola, and Mollie Panter-Downes. “Introduction”. One Fine Day, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xvi. x |
Literary responses | Naomi Royde-Smith | |
Literary responses | E. M. Delafield | Nicola Beauman
judges this one of EMD
's best novels. |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | At Mrs. Lippincote's set the tone for reception of ET
by attracting very mixed reviews. She treasured praise from L. P. Hartley
, Richard Church
(who was reminded of Woolf
's Mrs Dalloway), and... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | In connection with this story and with At Mrs. Lippincote's, Nicola Beauman
called her one of the great writers about childhood. Beauman, Nicola. A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914-39. Virago, 1983. 7 Jones, Amanda Jane. “The Sad Strangeness of Separation: Enuresis and Separation Anxiety in Women’s Wartime Fiction”. Women’s History, No. 4, pp. 24 - 8. 26 |
Literary responses | E. M. Delafield | Nicola Beauman
judges that EMD
succeeds in speaking to two different kinds of readers here: those who share the heroine's views of marriage and those who recognize the element of satire in them. Beauman, Nicola, and E. M. Delafield. “Introduction”. The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Rprt ed. , Virago Press, 1984, p. vii - xvii. xi |
Literary responses | E. M. Delafield | Critic Nicola Beauman
sees this as EMD
's most cruelly satirical novel. Beauman, Nicola, and E. M. Delafield. “Introduction”. The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Rprt ed. , Virago Press, 1984, p. vii - xvii. xii |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | Nicola Beauman
has called these some of the most remarkable letters of the twentieth century. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009. xv O’Connell, John. “’I have not got a bikini’”. The Guardian, p. Review 9. Review 9 |