Nicola Beauman

Standard Name: Beauman, Nicola

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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 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 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.
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The Times Literary Supplement welcomed with joy a novel where the...
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...
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...
Literary responses E. M. Delafield
Nicola Beauman judges this one of EMD 's best novels.
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 .
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.
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Maurice McCullen
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.
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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...
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...
Literary responses Ann Bridge
A British Foreign Office official warned that what he called the uniform unpleasantness of the Spanish characters (which was news to her: was he responding to the fact that people behave badly in extreme circumstances?)...
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 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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