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/.
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.
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Nicola Beauman
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.
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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.
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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...
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.
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John O'Connell
has found them astonishing in their candour and lucidity.
O’Connell, John. “’I have not got a bikini’”. The Guardian, p. Review 9.
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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...
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
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...
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...
Literary responses
Mollie Panter-Downes
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...
Literary responses
Mollie Panter-Downes
Nicola Beauman
sees the letters as a tribute to the behaviour of ordinary people in times of nightmare stress.
Beauman, Nicola, and Mollie Panter-Downes. “Introduction”. One Fine Day, Virago, p. vii - xvi.
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Literary responses
Mollie Panter-Downes
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...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Margaret Kennedy
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...
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.