William Somerset Maugham

Standard Name: Maugham, William Somerset

Connections

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text G. B. Stern
She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning 's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
prelims
She approaches...
Textual Production Muriel Box
Jassy was the only picture scheduled for production when she and Sydney took over managing Gainsborough Studios in 1946, and even that was not ready to go, being not fully scripted. When the Boxes moved...
Textual Production Mavis Gallant
Despite this promising request, she received no news regarding the subsequent stories she submitted from Europe. While living in poverty in Madrid, MG happened across one of her recently submitted stories, One Morning in...
Textual Production Elinor Glyn
EG accepted the contract partly to revive her waning popularity and partly because, as always, she needed the money. Lasky also hired Somerset Maugham , Edward Knoblock , Maurice Maeterlinck , Sir Gilbert Parker ...
Residence Elizabeth von Arnim
Here, as well as at her London home, EA entertained new friends: writers Rose Macaulay , Somerset Maugham , and Michael Arlen , composer Ethel Smyth , and illustrator Ernest Shepherd .
Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head.
275, 287, 290
Reception Elinor Mordaunt
The Times Literary Supplement found EM 's novel slightly malicious. She was sued by Somerset Maugham , on the basis that it was a hostile portrait of him.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
174
Occupation Hélène Barcynska
As well as devoting steady time and effort to her writing, HB founded a theatre company which she called Rogues and Vagabonds Repertory Players , because she discovered the Welsh theatre culture and thought they...
Literary responses Violet Hunt
Sooner or Later received (perhaps excessively) high praise from a number of VH 's contemporaries. Marie Belloc Lowndes (daughter of Bessie Rayner Parkes ) wrote in The Merry Wives of Westminster, 1946, that it...
Literary responses Nancy Mitford
The Blessing did not do so well as its two predecessors; Antonia Fraser feels that it marked a decline in fictional achievement.
Fraser, Antonia. “A Most Superior Street”. Spectator.co.uk. Champagne for the brain.
NM wrote that My Blessing has had the most awful reviews you ever...
Intertextuality and Influence Muriel Box
Street Corner is one of MB 's several (written and directed) quasi-feminist films in the 1950s, which take the woman's point of view in the male-dominated commercial cinema of her time.
Tylee, Claire M. et al., editors. War Plays by Women: An International Anthology. Routledge.
111
Its celebration of...
Intertextuality and Influence Laurence Hope
Hope's subject-matter and reputation have made her the template for a number of fictionalisations and literary tributes. In 1906 O. R. Howard Thompson wrote a poem for The Critic on seeing her portrait, which praises...
Friends, Associates F. Tennyson Jesse
Later, when FTJ was married to Harold Harwood and living at Cut Mill, her visitors included Geoffrey Faber , Alfred Knopf , and Somerset Maugham .
Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch.
145-6
Friends, Associates Ada Leverson
By the 1920s most of AL 's earlier friends were either dead or living abroad. But she was sought out by the novelists Somerset Maugham and Ronald Firbank , and by Wilde's younger son, Vyvyan Holland
Friends, Associates G. B. Stern
Other plums were Max Beerbohm , H. G. Wells , Somerset Maugham , J. B. Priestley , and Humbert Wolfe . Questioned by a reporter about the reason for the party, GBS suggested that she...
Friends, Associates Ella Hepworth Dixon
She often stayed with Count and Countess Lützow in Bohemia, where in 1903 she met Sibell, Countess of Cromartie , whom she described as one of my firmest friends ever since.
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson.
71
Through the...

Timeline

1952: The seventy-eight-year-old Somerset Maugham...

Writing climate item

1952

The seventy-eight-year-old Somerset Maugham confided to his former headmaster that he believed that the Order of Merit was something that they ought to award him, as the greatest living writer of English.

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