Victoria Glendinning

A female gynaecologist mentioned in the book as uncaring and insensitive successfully sued Greer for damages. The Penguin paperback which followed the year after publication came garlanded with praise from British feminist writers: Wendy Cope

Victoria Glendinning wrote in a New Statesman review: Howard writes most confidently and touchingly at very close range, about momentary doubts, unspoken anxieties, fleeting perceptions, intense good moments and equally intense bad ones, all inextricably...

Victoria Glendinning , reviewing for the New York Times, wrote that in this invigorating selection, EWconstantly touches the painful place where literary critic and creative writer meet; she apparently finds the relation...

In 1978 OM was sued by surviving relations of Sir Walter Smart , the original of a character in the novel who is shown in a disturbing and memorable scene attempting to feed the dead...

Critics have often bracketed The Third Miss Symons and The Rector's Daughter together as FMM 's masterpieces, in their terse prose style and resistance to stereotypes of spinsterhood. Victoria Glendinning , reviewing Oldfield's life of...

Sackville-West and Woolf never read VT 's text: it did not appear in English until 1985, with Barbara Bray 's translation and Victoria Glendinning 's introduction. In a critical essay, Broderie Anglaise...

After selling Bowen's Court she had lived briefly at Stratford and Oxford. There is some disagreement as to whether or not she later left Hythe again for London.

The reviewer quoted above, Victoria Glendinning , saw Shuttle as an uncompromising explorer, digging away in the moist rabbit-hole of the subconscious, but unlikely to carry very many readers with her.

The novel's action is set in Oxford. There, Alexa meets Anne and quarrels with John over the truth of John and Anne's love affair and failed elopement. Alexa and John are reconciled...

This novel revolves around four meetings (spread over several years) between pianist Harriet Hume and politician Arnold Condorex, characters who come to represent opposing forces—art and politics, private and public life, femininity and masculinity.

Three of the stories in this collection, Clara, A Woman at the Seaside, and Mrs. Reinhardt, use sleepwalking as a metaphor for their heroines' desire to escape their mundane lives.Clara...

The first story which EB completed was Breakfast, published in her first collection. She had not yet read the most respected short stories of recent years; her biographer Victoria Glendinning says she was very...

On 14 May 1918, four days after the end of her first romantic holiday with VT , Vita Sackville-West began writing her novel Challenge (titled Rebellion in its early stages). It is clearly based on...