John Lehmann

During the 1950s her poems were often read on a BBC Western Region programme, where they were first introduced by Charles Causley . John Lehmann read one of FB 's poems on the Third Programme...

EB contributed a perceptiveintroduction to a new edition (from John Lehmann 's Chiltern Library ) of Gaskell 's North and South.

DB first wrote Olivia in 1933 and then sent the manuscript to her friend André Gide . Gide found it not very engaging and, according to Mary Ann Caws and Sarah Bird Wright ...

Her choice of a literary life was parallelled among her siblings. Her brother Leonard became a writer, and her sister Barbara worked as secretary to John Lehmann .

Another cousin, Rudolph Chambers Lehmann (whose mother, also MMD 's aunt, was born Nina Chambers ), was a journalist and oarsman. He was on the editorial board of—and published in—Punch.

Money was always tight throughout ME 's life. She began her writing career relying on her father's tiny pension to supplement her earnings from intermittent paid work, and it was a problem for her when...

EJ contributed an introduction to a volume, the seventh in John Lehmann 's The Chiltern Library, published in 1947 and containing two titles by Elizabeth Gaskell . In her introduction to Thackeray 's Vanity...

They first had to negotiate the response to their idea from Lehmann's brother John , whose own magazine, New Writing, was already in the territory. They were then horrified by the layout, design, printing...

Auberon Waugh likened A Sea-Grape Tree to pulp romance, The Times thought it unintentionally absurd, and Lorna Sage called the main characters paper people. Thoughtful and positive comments from Elizabeth Jane Howard

RL and her brother John , along with her husband Leslie Runciman and his family, went on a cruise of the Mediterranean in the Runciman private yacht.

RL and her brother were hounded by members of the press for information about Communist agent Guy Burgess (who with Donald Maclean had defected from the British Foreign Office to Russia).

RL 's short story The Red-Haired Miss Daintreys was published in Folios of New Writing, edited by John Lehmann for the Hogarth Press .

Their brother John , the youngest of the family, came to wield great influence as a publisher. Rosamond's relationship with John remained close though sometimes stormy. She resented his over-idealization of their childhood in his...

When in 1946 RL 's brother John set up his own publishing firm, John Lehmann Limited , she became a shareholder and director, and also reader and consultant, until the company collapsed in late 1952.

This was reprinted in 1951 by John Lehmann in his Holiday Library .