Beauman, Nicola, and Mollie Panter-Downes. “Introduction”. One Fine Day, Virago, p. vii - xvi.
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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. x |
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. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1859 (18 September 1937): 673 |
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 | 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, p. vii - xvii. xi |
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. 7 Jones, Amanda Jane. “The Sad Strangeness of Separation: Enuresis and Separation Anxiety in Women’s Wartime Fiction”. Women’s History, Vol. 2 , No. 4, pp. 24-8. 26 |
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, 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. xv O’Connell, John. “’I have not got a bikini’”. The Guardian, p. Review 9. Review 9 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jenkins | 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. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 107 |
Literary responses | Margaret Kennedy | 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... |
Literary responses | Lady Cynthia Asquith | The volume was a Book Society
recommendation. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 325 |
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... |
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... |
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