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Textual Production | Lady Cynthia Asquith | LCA
's personal Diaries 1915-1918, kept during the First World War, which had remained unpublished during her lifetime, appeared posthumously in print with a foreword by the novelist L. P. Hartley
. The... |
Textual Production | Vera Brittain | Three of VB
's own poems appeared in the collection, which also included poems by Winifred Holtby
, Robert Graves
, Edmund Blunden
, L. P. Hartley
, Roy Campbell
, and Louis Golding
. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 156 |
Textual Production | Gillian Slovo | For her second South African novel (later called a thriller), TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4704 (28 May 1993): 23 |
Textual Production | Penelope Fitzgerald | She planned to write something about Harold Monro
and the Poetry Bookshop
, which she felt to have been unfairly eclipsed by the much-heard-of Bloomsbury group. Hill, Rosemary. “Making Do and Mending”. London Review of Books, Vol. 30 , No. 18, pp. 9-10. 9 |
Textual Production | Harold Pinter | Pinter was highly productive as a writer of screenplays, beginning with The Servant in 1963. This film, adapted from a novella by Robin Maugham
and dealing with an employer (Dirk Bogarde
) who is... |
Residence | Margaret Kennedy | During the war years Kennedy felt London was too dangerous for her children and they therefore remained at Hendre. This arrangement meant that Kennedy and Davies spent the duration of the war travelling between Wales... |
Reception | Edith Sitwell | She wrote to L. P. Hartley
about the ceremony: It will amuse you to know that as I advanced towards the Queen to get my decoration, the band played Annie, Get Your Gun. Sitwell, Edith. Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell. Editor Greene, Richard, Virago Books. 352 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | At Mrs. Lippincote's set the tone for reception of ET
by attracting very mixed reviews. She treasured praise from L. P. Hartley
, Richard Church
(who was reminded of Woolf
's Mrs Dalloway), and... |
Literary responses | Christine Brooke-Rose | The reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement found the regressive narrative disconcerting and tiring. Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press. 38 |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | L. P. Hartley
, reviewing Elders and Betters in the Sketch dated 23 February 1944, voiced a frequent response to ICB
: that despite her anti-realistic methods, she came closer to portraying reality than did... |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Of this novel ICB
wrote, I have never had such superficial reviews. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton. 190 |
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
. Lee, Hermione. “Like Buttons in a Box”. Guardian Unlimited. |
Literary responses | Edna O'Brien | Literary reviews were generally positive. The Times of London praised EOB
's gift of quick, sensitive observation. Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson. (1960): 1012 |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Taylor | ET
wrote that she liked routine and was always disconcerted when I am asked for my life story, for nothing sensational, thank heavens, has ever happened. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 139 |
Friends, Associates | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Cynthia was also a friend of Viola Meynell
and of Enid Bagnold
, whose Sussex homes were close to that of the Asquiths during the Second World War. Thirkell, as well as Lawrence, Bagnold, and... |
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