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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 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Stevie Smith | 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... |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | 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
. Elizabeth Northcote, Countess of Iddesleigh, et al. “List of Books by Mrs Belloc Lowndes, Foreword”. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947, edited by Susan Lowndes Marques and Susan Lowndes Marques, Chatto and Windus, pp. prelims, 1 - 3. 2 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Kennedy | 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... |
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... |
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. |
Friends, Associates | Penelope Fitzgerald | 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... |
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 |
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 |
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