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Dedications | Susan Miles | With four books of verse behind her, SM
issued her ambitious first novel, entitled Blind Men Crossing a Bridge, and dedicated to Katherine Mansfield
. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. |
Education | Tillie Olsen | At home the Lerner children learned Yiddish songs and made up silly plays. Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010. 27 |
Education | Rumer Godden | RG
's determination to become a writer fuelled a continued self-education. Books were hard to come by in India, yet she managed to find and devour recent publications: Edith Sitwell
's Troy Park and Façade... |
Education | Carson McCullers | About this time she was reading voraciously: theBrontësisters
, Russian novelists and dramatists, and British and American modernists including Katherine Mansfield
and Gertrude Stein
. Isak Dinesen
was to come later. Carr, Virginia Spencer. The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers. Doubleday and Co. Inc., 1975. 33 Dews, Carlos L., and Carson McCullers. “Chronology and Notes”. Complete Novels, Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States, 2001, pp. 807 - 27. 808 |
Education | Philip Larkin | For ten years from 1930, as both a primary and a secondary-school student, PL
attended King Henry VIII School
in Coventry (now an independent school for both sexes, but founded in the sixteenth century as... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ada Leverson | AL
's three sisters all married socially prominent Jewish husbands. Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973. 19 Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993. 239-40 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fleur Adcock | She later wrote, Marrying was what we did in those days. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Tillie Olsen | Their next child (also, as the nurses said, just a girl) was born on 17 November 1943. She was named Katherine Jo Olsen for Käthe Kollwitz
, Katherine Mansfield
, Kate Kennedy
(a pioneer of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Brett | As well as sharing a house in Hampstead for some time with her close and loyal friend Mansfield
, DB
lived for a while with Mark Gertler
as her lodger (who, however, was not her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | EA
made contact with Katherine Mansfield
after discovering through Frank Swinnerton
that Mansfield was a New Zealand cousin, formerly named Kathleen Beauchamp. A friendship ensued. Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head, 1986. 217 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Brett | DB
's younger sister, Sylvia, later Lady Brooke
, born in 1885, is herself of no minor literary significance. She authored numerous works including two autobiographies, romance novels, and short stories, and claimed J. M. Barrie |
Fictionalization | Elizabeth von Arnim | EA
inspired a number of creative portraits by her contemporaries during the earlier part of her career. Probably the best-known is the character of Mrs Failing in E. M. Forster
's novel The Longest Journey... |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Brett | The relationship between DB
and Katherine Mansfield
appears to have been one of mutual support, each engaging deeply with the other's work. Brett credits Mansfield with the beginning of her artistic career, She gave me... |
Friends, Associates | Ling Shuhua | The group's founders emphasised exchanges between Asian and British literary cultures; they named it after Rabindrath Tagore
's prose-poem collection The Crescent Moon (1903), after they brought Tagore
to Beijing via the Society for Lectures on the New Learning |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Brett | Travelling to Taos the first time in Lawrence's
company, Brett had met Willa Cather
and Harriet Monroe
. Brett, Dorothy. Lawrence and Brett. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1933. 39-40 |