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Literary responses | John Galsworthy | JG
's literary reputation, established with his first Forsyte novel, was strong in the late Edwardian period and the early 1920s, but deteriorated later in the decade (though he remained very popular with the public)... |
Literary responses | Arnold Bennett | This novel received immediate praise in the press, though sales of the small print-run took a long time to pick up. Enthusiastic reviewers included such different writers as Walter de la Mare
(in the Times... |
Literary responses | Rebecca West | The wit and audacity with which RW
attacked literary figures in her Freewoman articles—from Mary Augusta Ward
's complete lack of sense West, Rebecca. The Young Rebecca. Editor Marcus, Jane, Macmillan with Virago, http://UofA. 15 West, Rebecca. The Young Rebecca. Editor Marcus, Jane, Macmillan with Virago, http://UofA. 64 |
Literary responses | Arnold Bennett | Margaret Drabble
began work on her biography of AB
(published in 1974) in a partisan spirit, because she felt Bennett was seriously undervalued. She was, she wrote, surprised to find she enjoyed and respected... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | H. G. Wells
, reviewing this work, wrote that DR
had probably carried impressionism in fiction to its furthest limit. He considered that her percepts never become concepts, and that her heroine is not a... |
Literary responses | E. H. Young | One review discerned a possible influence from Dorothy Richardson
, but thought EHY
(whom it supposed to be male) a saner person than Richardson (whom it knew to be female). Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol. 27 , No. 3, pp. 303-31. 316-17 |
Literary responses | Ella D'Arcy | H. G. Wells
reviewed Monochromes along with volumes of stories by Henry Harland
and by Henry James
. Dismissing Harland as a mediocrity and James for his style (which he likened to thorns, brambles, and... |
Literary responses | E. Nesbit | Again Kipling
wrote comically about the effect of her work in his household: how the governess had to read it aloud again and again, and his wife just all the time, and himself too, but... |
Literary responses | Gertrude Stein | Reviewers of GS
saw this work as embodying a new naturalism. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 68 Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 68-9 |
Literary responses | E. Nesbit | In 1915 EN
was granted a Civil List
pension of sixty pounds a year. She was pleased but not overwhelmed at this honour, and thought it ought not to have been taxed. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 365-6 |
Literary responses | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Robin Hone
, reviewing, found a genial mist of restrained and charitable recollection, which ignored such jarring contrasts as that between this time and the First World War which was to follow, or between D. H. Lawrence |
Literary responses | Zoë Fairbairns | The Times Literary Supplement reviewer, Frank Pike
, judged the novel ambitious yet unpretentious. Pike, Frank. “Catching Up: Fiction”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4003, p. 104. 104 Pike, Frank. “Catching Up: Fiction”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4003, p. 104. 104 |
Literary responses | Margaret Kennedy | The novel's initial favourable reviews came from an earlier generation of authors, including George Moore
, A. E. Housman
, Thomas Hardy
, Arnold Bennett
, J. M. Barrie
, and H. G. Wells
... |
Literary responses | Margaret Atwood | |
Literary Setting | Dorothy Richardson | Hypo Wilson's seaside home, modelled after a house that H. G. Wells
had in Kent, is another of the novel's settings. Here, Miriam's writer friend Hypo is portrayed in the present as she views... |
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