Nicola Beauman

DW 's Someone at a Distance, her final novel and her only one not set in or around Blackburn or Nottingham, is seen by Nicola Beauman as her most important book.

This volume contained a selection of what LCA had written during these years. Her family very nearly decided to cut, as too personal and harrowing, a passage about the grief of her sister-in-law Lady Violet (Letty) Charteris

Nicola Beauman in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that AB 's writing (under the pseudonym she chose for the sake of the concealment necessary for a Foreign Office wife) began with articles, poems...

After beginning her trip smoothly, Diana is surprised by a Sheik, Ahmed Ben Hassan, who kidnaps and rapes her. But EMH provides a troubling confluence of passion and male aggression, carefully blurring the line between...

Marny is Carew's counterpart because of her dismal experience of marriage. His wife was unfaithful; her husband was abusive (he struck her, the whole weight of his powerful body behind the smashing blow that...

The plot centres on a married woman's love for another man. Critic Nicola Beauman finds that EMD 's satirical tone in this and other novels encourages the reader both to sympathize with and to devalue...

Two monographs have been devoted to ET : one in the Twayne series by Florence Leclercq, another by N. H. Reeve , 2008. Leclercq 's analysis left a good deal to be desired. She was...

This book appeared with very distinguished endorsement on its jacket. T. S. Eliot wrote that he found it a very poignant story.Storm Jameson wrote, Its simplicities are at a profound level. The theme is...

US sales for stories soon followed. Harper's Bazaar published one extracted from A View from the Harbour in July 1947, and a year later, in September 1948, I Live in a World of Make-Beiieve (which...

With this publication, Kennedy began an eleven-year relationship with Heinemann . Virago republished the book in 1981 as one of its Modern Classics series; it included an introduction by Nicola Beauman . MK dedicated her...

The book is dedicated to the editor and directors of Time and Tide. Its many reprints include those with introductions by Nicola Beauman and by Jilly Cooper .

Critic Nicola Beauman sees this as EMD 's most cruelly satirical novel.

Nicola Beauman has called these some of the most remarkable letters of the twentieth century.John O'Connell has found them astonishing in their candour and lucidity.

The novel was criticised by some for its exclusively upper-middle-class reach—a view which was energetically countered by Rose Macaulay on a radio programme.The Times Literary Supplement welcomed with joy a novel where the...

Recent critics, such as Barbara Brothers and Beauman , have re-read the novel for its focus on the portrayal of women and their lives in fiction, to find it one of Kennedy's more substantive and...