Nicola Beauman

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...

In the same year that her mother died, 1928, MK gave birth to her first child, Julia , who also became a novelist. Another daughter and a son followed in 1930 and 1935. Kennedy and...

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...

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...

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...

MPD married future businessman Clare Robinson , whom she had met the year before when he was still an undergraduate.

This novel was much less well received than MPD 's first. Critic Nicola Beauman finds it remarkable for the fact that the protagonist acquires a social conscience after coming into money, and for the lyrical...

Nicola Beauman sees the letters as a tribute to the behaviour of ordinary people in times of nightmare stress.

On the publication of London War NotesNoël Coward wrote to tell MPD that her evocation of the city in wartime, nearly thirty years in the past, was so well done that he felt sodden...

MPD , who disparaged her own powers of invention and ear for dialogue, called this her only novel.Nicola Beauman thought it a study in the shifting sands of social class, and a hymn...

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...

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...

In connection with this story and with At Mrs. Lippincote's, Nicola Beauman called her one of the great writers about childhood.

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...

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.