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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Mary Wesley | MW
was influenced in her religious thinking by several writers, including Simone Weil
and Graham Greene
. The novelist Antonia White
stood as godmother to them both, and they seem to have fallen in mostly... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Wesley | In wartime London in 1944 she met journalist, linguist, and playwright Eric Siepmann
. Wright, Daphne. “Mary Wesley”. Guardian Weekly. 19 Marnham, Patrick. Wild Mary: the Life of Mary Wesley. Chatto and Windus, 2006. 127 |
Friends, Associates | Graham Greene | Personal friends who were Catholics or converted to that faith during the course of their friendships with Greene included Muriel Spark
, Antonia White
and the future writer Mary Wesley
. |
Friends, Associates | Anne Ridler | Her brother was working for publishers George Bell
, and she met a number of authors, including Antonia White
and Margaret Kennedy
. Later, through her own work, she met with T. S. Eliot
's... |
Friends, Associates | Theodora Benson | TB
enjoyed a wide circle of friends both literary and non-literary. The former included Rose Macaulay
and Howard Spring
. She met her future collaborator Betty Askwith
(daughter of an old friend of her mother's)... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Wesley | Even when they lived in a remote spot, the Siepmanns' circle of close literary friends included Nancy Mitford
, Graham Greene
, Antonia White
, and Emily Coleman
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Literary responses | Leonora Carrington | In her 2017 assessment Marina Warner
likens the text, as a testament to the horrors of psychosis and convulsive drug therapy that is split between visionary illumination and profound psychological distress, to such writing as... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jane Howard | EJH
had a cool, but friendly review from Francis Wyndham
and a very good one from Antonia White
. Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan, 2002. 210 |
Literary responses | Flora Macdonald Mayor | Rediscovery of FMM
was fostered by Sybil Oldfield
, who in 1984 published an extensive account of Mayor's life and works (which she narrated in parallel with those of Mayor's contemporary Mary Sheepshanks
). During... |
Literary responses | Barbara Pym | BP
's father wrote to her on 3 May 1950 commending this novel, which he had not expected to enjoy since he preferred mysteries. Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992. 157n12 |
Literary responses | Barbara Pym | Pym is not one of those women writers whose stock has risen through feminist re-evaluation. Five years after the influential Times Literary Supplement article was published, Penelope Lively
wrote, I am always surprised that the... |
Occupation | Graham Greene | GG
also worked as director for two different London publishing houses: for Eyre and Spottiswoode
from 1944 (when he resigned from the secret service) to 1948 and for Bodley Head
for ten years beginning in... |
Occupation | Caroline Blackwood | In the year of her society debut Caroline got a job as a journalist on Picture Post. This lively, popular magazine, a pioneer of photojournalism, was then at the peak of its circulation, but... |
Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | |
Publishing | Colette | Four volumes translated by Antonia White
in the English Uniform Edition of Colette
were reprinted in a portmanteau volume entitled The Complete Claudine. British Library Catalogue. Norell, Donna M. Colette: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. Garland, 1993. 35 |