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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | Orlando set a new level in VW
's public reputation. The usual polarization of reviews was represented by J. C. Squire
in The Observer calling it a very pleasant trifle that would entertain the drawing-rooms... |
Literary responses | Romer Wilson | In her diary on 3 May 1921, Virginia Woolf
, who had not yet read the novel, accurately predicted that it would win the Hawthornden Prize. Six days later, she recorded her disappointment in it:... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Whipple | DW
's mother and siblings cried over the text of her childhood autobiography, remembering old days. Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph. 71 |
Reception | Edith Sitwell | Wheels made ES
the enemy, as she intended, of John Squire
and other supporters of the Georgian style of poetry (whom she and her brothers saw as unforgivably complicit in a dishonest glorifying of the... |
Publishing | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
contributed poems to J. C. Squire
's London Mercury and to Georgian Poetry, 1922-23, edited by Edward Marsh
. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 117, 125 |
Literary responses | Vita Sackville-West | The enthusiastic review by J. C. Squire
was not entirely welcome to VSW
, since she regarded Squire as a silly old ass and all that. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 167 |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | The first idea for a poem about farming and country labour (The Land) came to VSW
when J. C. Squire
casually remarked on the dearth of poetry about working life. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 119 |
Friends, Associates | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
was a close friend of Rose Macaulay
, with whom in the immediate postwar period she shared entertaining duties at her flat, in something similar to a salon. They apparently met through Macaulay contributing... |
Literary responses | Alice Meynell | Critic J. C. Squire
(known for his anti-modernist stance) praised AM
's extraordinarily sensitive heart and . . . perfectly balanced brain. Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 234 Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 234 |
Reception | Mathilde Blind | Despite her very high reputation, particularly as a poet, in her own day, MB
quickly disappeared from the literary horizon following her death. Disregard of the political aspects of her poetry led to serious misreading... |
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