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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... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
Friends, Associates | George Egerton | After the success of her Keynotes, GE
became acquainted with the literary and intellectual world. Among her new acquaintances she expressed admiration for Havelock Ellis
but called W. B. Yeats
a poseur. Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press. 34 |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Egerton | Bright first had a column in the Evening Sun, and later wrote for the Daily Express and the Pall Mall Gazette. He was sub-editor at the Evening Sun and night-editor at the Daily... |
Friends, Associates | Julia Frankau | Literary figures regularly seen at JF
's afternoon salons included George Moore
, Max Beerbohm
, Arnold Bennett
, Somerset Maugham
, Sir William Nicholson
, and Sir Henry Irving
. It was at one... |
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
... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Hunt | VH
had a brief sexual relationship with W. Somerset Maugham
in Paris. Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster. 114 |
Anthologization | Violet Hunt | VH
was recommended to the highly innovative, influential Review by her literary agent J. B. Pinker
. The Coach, one of the short stories she submitted at this time, was published in the journal's... |
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... |
Dedications | Violet Hunt | Her agent J. B. Pinker
sent the manuscript to William Heinemann
, who agreed to publish it on the condition that Hunt should change its ending: she would not find an audience, he insisted, for... |
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 |
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