L. P. Hartley

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. She had a passion for modern painting, and...

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...

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...

For her second South African novel (later called a thriller),The Betrayal, GS chose (as she quite often did) a title used by others as well. In this case...

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.

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...

Literary reviews were generally positive. The Times of London praised EOB 's gift of quick, sensitive observation. In the New StatesmanV. S. Naipaul praised O'Brien for simply offer[ing] her characters, [who] come...

Apart from MBL 's established literary friends, there were many whose early writing she encouraged to particularly good effect: Graham Greene , Margaret Kennedy , Pamela Frankau , E. M. Delafield , and L. P. Hartley .

MK also forged a lasting friendship with novelist and critic L. P. Hartley . She and her husband regularly invited Hartley over for dinners and visits, and he, in turn, allowed them to stay in...

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...

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 .

PF was a friend of L. P. Hartley and of Stevie Smith , both of whom she met when they contributed to World Review, of which she and her husband were editors. Her sudden...

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. She also worked on but did not...

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...

Of this novel ICB wrote, I have never had such superficial reviews. They did, however, praise the book, especially in the case of reviewers who were also novelists, like Elizabeth Bowen , Pamela Hansford Johnson