Lee, Hermione. “Like Buttons in a Box”. Guardian Unlimited.
Hermione Lee
Standard Name: Lee, Hermione
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Susan Hill | Critic Hermione Lee
, reviewing the collection for the Guardian, praised SH
's tender attention to detail, and likened her to L. P. Hartley
and Elizabeth Bowen
. |
| Anthologization | Mary Lavin | Sixty-four of ML
's short stories were published in magazines before most of them were collected in volumes. She was a frequent contributor to Atlantic Monthly, the Dublin Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and... |
| Literary responses | Doris Lessing | The following year she won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, which The Author called the best and most worthy of all literary prizes, Parker, Derek. “On the Side”. The Author, Vol. cxii , No. 2, pp. 86-8. 87 |
| Textual Features | Flora Macdonald Mayor | While spinsters are again perceived as lonely, self-pitying, garrulous, defensive TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4223 (9 March 1984): 238 |
| Literary responses | Julia O'Faolain | This novel was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Hermione Lee
praised it in the Observer for presenting the inter-relationship between family and national history, while Robert Nye
in the Guardian called it one of the... |
| Publishing | Stevie Smith | Two years later Hermione Lee
edited Stevie Smith: a Selection, and in 2015 Will May edited Smith's Collected Poems and Drawings. |
| Textual Production | Julia Strachey | JS
wrote the novel while staying with her aunt Dorothy Bussy
's family at Roquebrune in France, informally separated from her first husband, Stephen Tomlin
. Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown. 113, 116 |
| Reception | Edith Wharton | EW
's literary career was achieved in face of the indifference or disapproval of her relations, who felt that to publish was to lose caste. In 1923 EW
was awarded an Honorary DLitt by Yale University |
| Health | Virginia Woolf | Virginia was thirteen: this death ended her childhood and provoked her first nervous breakdown. She said later that her mother's death was the greatest disaster that could happen, Woolf, Virginia. Moments of Being. Editor Schulkind, Jeanne, Chatto and Windus for Sussex University Press. 40 |
| Violence | Virginia Woolf | VW
did not discuss this incident specifically until the last years of her life. Hermione Lee
, who considers the matter as fully as possible, argues that it would be rash to ignore or belittle... |
| Education | Virginia Woolf | Both Virginia and Vanessa felt that they were uneducated, and VWfelt intellectually deprived, regretting all her life that she had never competed with other children. Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, pp. 32-56. 32-3 |
| Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | (Vanessa launched a parallel meeting for artists on Fridays: the Friday Club
.) VW
wrote that the Thursday evenings were the germ of all that has since come to be called—in newspapers, in novels, in... |
| Leisure and Society | Virginia Woolf | With Adrian Stephen, Duncan Grant
, Guy Ridley
, and Anthony Buxton
, she toured the premier battleship HMS Dreadnought impersonating the Emperor of Abyssinia and his entourage. Virginia was disguised as Prince Mendax (Latin... |
| Residence | Virginia Woolf | Hermione Lee
notes that during this period [p]assionate celebrations of London filled the diaries and letters and spilled over into Mrs. Dalloway. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 474 |
| Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | The Hogarth Press
began publishing Freud in 1922, and continued through the following years, mainly through their highly successful production of the International Psycho-Analytical Library. Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan. 72, 82 Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 372 |
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