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Olivia Manning
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Standard Name: Manning, Olivia
Birth Name: Olivia Mary Manning
Nickname: Ollov
Pseudonym: Jacob Morrow
Pseudonym: O. M. Manning
Married Name: Olivia Mary Smith
OM
began publishing shortly before the Second World War. She produced thirteen novels, as well as short stories and non-fiction including historical and topographical writing. Her best known works are her two highly praised trilogies of novels about Europe in the Second World War.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Ivy Compton-Burnett | After Jourdain's death, ICB
's circle of friends included George Furlong
, Rex Brandreth
, Barbara
and Walter Robinson
, Soame Jenyns
, Elizabeth Taylor
, Sonia Orwell
(widow of the writer George Orwell), Australian-born... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jane Howard | Her friends during the 1950s included Stephen
and Natasha Spender
, Alec Waugh
, Margaret Lane
, Malcolm Sargent
, and Joyce Grenfell
. She also met Cyril Connolly
, Olivia Manning
, Stevie Smith |
| Friends, Associates | Pamela Hansford Johnson | Friends made in New York included PHJ
's publisher Charles Scribner
, as well as Diana
and Lionel Trillingwhom I loved, but always found a little intimidating. |
| Friends, Associates | Betty Miller | BM
's friends included Olivia Manning
, Rosamond Lehmann
, Stevie Smith
, Inez Holden
, Viola Meynell
, and Eleanor Farjeon
. Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xviii. xv |
| Friends, Associates | Harold Pinter | Simon Gray
was Pinter's favourite living playwright and favourite friend. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010. 273 |
| Friends, Associates | Barbara Pym | In a letter to Philip Larkin
, Pym remarked, Iris was much smaller than I imagined—I'd always thought of her as tall, but I seemed to tower above her (though only in height, of course)... |
| Friends, Associates | George Bernard Shaw | He was an important figure in the lives and careers of almost innumerable women writers: a good friend of Annie Besant
, Sylvia Pankhurst
, Elizabeth Robins
, and Christopher St John
, a romantic... |
| Friends, Associates | Stevie Smith | Her large circle of friends also included Sally Chilver
(author of A History of Socialism), novelists Inez Holden
, Olivia Manning
, and Cecily Mackworth
, Kay Dick
(assistant editor of John O'London's Weekly... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sheenagh Pugh | Her recent poems often adopt an oblique but clearly legible attitude to political events. The Bereavement of the Lion-Keeper (a poem whose subject-matter is interestingly congruent with that of Olivia Manning
's short story The... |
| Literary responses | Edith Sitwell | This was praised by British Book News, which rejoiced to find ES
's astonishing verbal dexterity employed in her later work upon themes of ever-increasing profundity . . . . She is a poet... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | Reviews of A Game of Hide and Seek included high praise from Marghanita Laski
and Elizabeth Bowen
(some consolation to ET
for her problems with her US publisher), but also carping which she found deeply... |
| politics | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | MCH
considered herself an extreme Liberal, though not a Gladstonian. She was fascinated by the controversy over Sir Henry Morton Stanley
's Relief Expedition of 1887-1890, in which eight Europeans and over a thousand Africans... |
| Textual Production | Susan Hill | The anthology of British women writers she published in 1990 with Michael Joseph
as The Parchment Moon: An Anthology of Modern Women's Short Stories was reprinted the following year as The Penguin Book of Modern... |
| Textual Production | Anna Wickham | Virago Press
published The Writings of Anna Wickham
, Free Woman and Poet, edited by R. D. Smith
, a collection of her poetry and prose which includes several previously unpublished works. R. D... |
| Textual Production | Anna Wickham | R. D. Smith
, AW
's editor (and widower of Olivia Manning
), indicates that she wrote a number of prose pieces between 1910 and 1915, of which only a handful are published in his... |
Timeline
1 January 1916
The British edition of Vogue (an American fashion magazine) began publishing from Condé Nast
in Hanover Square, London.
22 June 1941
Romania under its King Michael
or Mihai joined the German side in the Second World War, in pursuit of its enmity with the USSR and at the prompting of a Nazi military mission which had...
23 October-7 November 1942
The Second Battle of El Alamein ended in a British victory.
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