Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Amabel Williams-Ellis | During Amabel's childhood, visitors to the St Loe Strachey household included the powerful and famous, mostly diplomats, millionaires, politicians. Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983. 6 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
used a quill pen for her writing, which she did during the mornings, the quiet hours before the household demands her attention. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944. 296 |
Occupation | Rosita Forbes | For RF
's next journey (heading for Mecca and Medina but reaching only to Jeddah) she was offered remuneration of five thousand pounds by Lord Northcliffe
, a sum which represented to me security... |
Reception | Ella Hepworth Dixon | In 1896 a critic wrote that EHD
was much sought after by editors because she writes carefully, punctually, and honestly, never scamping. Apart from her consistently high quality (Alfred Harmsworth
called her the... |
Textual Features | Mary Stott | Why, Stott wonders, do national newspapers print so few leading articles by women, when Harriet Martineau
was writing regular leaders for the Daily News back in the mid nineteenth century? Why has there never been... |