Antonia White

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Standard Name: White, Antonia
Birth Name: Eirene Adeline Botting
Pseudonym: Antonia White
Nickname: Tony
Pseudonym: Ann Jeffrey
Pseudonym: Jane Marshall
AW found composition a torment, suffered from recurrent writer's block, and discarded innumerable drafts of everything she wrote. Yet besides working as a journalist, she left more than thirty translations, four heavily autobiographical novels, some stories and poems, a play, a fragment of autobiography, two children's books, letters, and diaries amounting to more than a million words.
Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, pp. 32-4.
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Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Travel Djuna Barnes
Other visitors to Hayford Hall included Antonia White and Emily Coleman . DB also spent the summer of 1933 there.
Field, Andrew. Djuna: The Formidable Miss Barnes. University of Texas.
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Herring, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Penguin.
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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)...
Textual Features Theodora Benson
Her contributors include Louis Golding on his first time horse-racing and Beverley Nichols on having an Affaire. Betty Askwith wrote of being bitten with the travel bug (on a journey in company with TB
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...
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...
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. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Norell, Donna M. Colette: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. Garland.
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Publishing Colette
This was translated into English (as Claudine at School) by Janet Flanner in 1930 and by Antonia White in 1956 (several times reprinted).
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
It was followed the next year by Claudine à Paris...
Publishing Colette
It was translated under the title Recaptured by Viola Gerard Garvin in 1931. Another translation, by Antonia White , appeared under the title of The Shackle in 1963 (title-page saying 1964), as the seventeenth and...
Publishing Colette
There had by this date been one collected edition of her works in French; two more followed by the end of the twentieth century. The edition in English ran to 17 volumes. Other translators were...
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 .
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...
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.
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She was astonished and delighted at the award of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (then...
Textual Production Sara Maitland
SM provided an introduction to Antonia White 's The Hound and the Falcon (the novel in which White describes her return to the Roman Catholic Church ), when it was reprinted by Virago in 1982...
Publishing Olivia Manning
It was re-issued in 1984 in an omnibus volume from Virago together with two other novels about growing up female: Rosamond Lehmann 's The Weather in the Streets and Antonia White 's Frost in May.
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...

Timeline

May 1978: Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern...

Women writers item

May 1978

Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern Classics, a historically important series most though not all of which were novels.

Summer 2005: News broke that one of the bestselling nonfiction...

Women writers item

Summer 2005

News broke that one of the bestselling nonfiction books of the year, Judith Kelly 's Rock Me Gently, included passages almost verbally identical with passages by other authors.

Texts

White, Antonia. “A Child of the Five Wounds”. The Old School, edited by Graham Greene, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 209-26.
Maupassant, Guy de. A Woman’s Life. Translator White, Antonia, Hamish Hamilton, 1949.
White, Antonia. Antonia White: Diaries 1926-1957. Editor Chitty, Susan, Constable, 1991.
White, Antonia. As Once in May. Editor Chitty, Susan, Virago, 1983.
White, Antonia. BBC at War. BBC, 1942.
White, Antonia. Beyond the Glass. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1954.
White, Antonia. Diaries 1958-1979. Editor Chitty, Susan, Constable, 1992.
White, Antonia. “Epitaph”. The Booster.
White, Antonia. Frost in May. Desmond Harmsworth, 1933.
White, Antonia. “Strangers”. New Statesman and Nation.
White, Antonia. Strangers. Harvill Press, 1954.
White, Antonia. The Hound and the Falcon. Longmans, 1965.
White, Antonia. “The House of Clouds”. Delta: Special Peace and Dismemberment Number with Jitterbug-Shag Requiem.
White, Antonia. The Lost Traveller. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1950.
White, Antonia. The Sugar House. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1952.
White, Antonia. Three in a Room. Samuel French, 1947.