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.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production
Lady Cynthia Asquith
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
Textual Production
Ann Bridge
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...
Textual Features
E. M. Delafield
The plot centres on a married woman's love for another man.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Critic Nicola Beauman
finds that EMD
's satirical tone in this and other novels encourages the reader both to sympathize with and to devalue...
Textual Features
E. M. Hull
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...
Textual Features
E. M. Hull
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...
Reception
Elizabeth Taylor
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...
Reception
Susan Miles
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...
Publishing
E. M. Delafield
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
.
Publishing
Elizabeth Taylor
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...
Publishing
Margaret Kennedy
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...
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, p. vii - xvi.
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Nicola Beauman
thought it a study in the shifting sands of social class, and a hymn...
Literary responses
E. M. Delafield
Nicola Beauman
judges this one of EMD
's best novels.
Literary responses
Naomi Royde-Smith
The TLS praised NRS
's skill in the management of a gripping story.
Nicola Beauman
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography mentioned among NRS
's most admired later 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...
Timeline
September 1998: Literary historian Nicola Beauman founded...
Women writers item
September 1998
Literary historian Nicola Beauman
founded Persephone Books
, aimed at reprinting in beautiful format forgotten classics by twentieth-century (mostly women) writers.