Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981.
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Victoria Glendinning
Standard Name: Glendinning, Victoria
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Bowen | Her biographer Victoria Glendinning
believes that her Anglicanism
was more than merely social, and cites her indignation over the modernising of services in the Book of Common Prayer, and her speaking up in support... |
| Cultural formation | Edith Sitwell | According to biographer Victoria Glendinning
, ES
wrote in her later life: I was unpopular with my parents from the moment of my birth. |
| Education | Vita Sackville-West | At thirteen VSW
began attending a small day school run by Helen Wolff
(whose name is variously spelled in various sources) in South Audley Street, off Park Lane. The staff were mostly male. Vita... |
| Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | ES
had received crucial support from Rootham in establishing her life and writing; she returned the support both financially and emotionally during Rootham's ultimately unsuccessful struggles to make a career as a singer. Hill, Rosemary. “No False Modesty”. London Review of Books, No. 20, pp. 25 - 6. 26 |
| Health | Dorothy Wellesley | According to Vita Sackville-West's biographer Victoria Glendinning
, DW
in her later years (from about 1940) was frequently blind drunk, often outrageously so in public. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 306, 323 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Rebecca West | The language is stilted an deliberately archaic. Victoria Glendinning
describes the novel as baroque in manner and matter, Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Introduction”. Harriet Hume, Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1980. 1 |
| Leisure and Society | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
became a debutante, entering the ritual season of fashionable parties which would launch her in society. Her son Nigel Nicolson
dates this in June 1910, but biographer Glendinning
makes that date sound unlikely. Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. Portrait of a Marriage. Futura, 1974. 57 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 37 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 31 |
| Literary responses | Barbara Pym | This became BP
's most widely-reviewed text, and received a mixed reception. Robert Liddell
was again outraged, calling this a dreadful book which had only been made possible by the betrayal of Pym's friends in... |
| Literary responses | Edith Sitwell | Sitwell was subject to dismissive antifeminist comment from such critics as Geoffrey Grigson
and Harold Acton
. Hill, Rosemary. “No False Modesty”. London Review of Books, No. 20, pp. 25 - 6. 26 |
| Literary responses | Alison Fell | Victoria Glendinning
in the Times Literary Supplement (in AF
's only review to date in that prestigious journal) gave a muted welcome to this collection. To Fell's expressed desire to write ourselves some decent parts... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Forster | The response of reviewers, including specialists in feminist biography, was enthusiastic. Victoria Glendinning
in the Times welcomed a development she said she had been looking forward to: a biography offering sympathetic comprehension of the inner... |
| Literary responses | Jane Gardam | This collection won both the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. It was also a New Fiction Society
choice. British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. (23 January 1976): 77 |
| Literary responses | Jane Gardam | The TLS review by Victoria Glendinning
found JG
in this collection better at people than at plots, and dealing out more scrutiny and more punishment to women than to men. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. (18 April 1980): 430 |
| Literary responses | Rose Tremain | Reviewers divided over the question of how convincingly RT
had impersonated her very young male hero. The Guardian reviewer admired the way that readers were led deep . . . into Lewis's consciousness, while some... |
| Literary responses | Germaine Greer | A female gynaecologist mentioned in the book as uncaring and insensitive successfully sued Greer for damages. Wallace, Christine. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. Richard Cohen Books, 1999. 265-6 |
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