This is the novel chosen for analysis by Patrick Braybrooke
in Some Goddesses of the Pen, 1928. He is clearly disturbed by EBO
's presentation of anti-semitism, but credits her with candour and straight...
Textual Production
Monica Dickens
Its title comes from some lines of poetry by Hilaire Belloc
: There's nothing worth the wear of winning, / But laughter and the love of friends.
Dickens, Monica. An Open Book. Heinemann.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Wendy Cope
The Muse Strikes Back does not show WC
answering in anger. Her poem to John Clare
(written for the John Clare Society
) is a celebration and a declaration of kinship: Awake in the early...
Intertextuality and Influence
Joanna Cannan
Alison Dunbar, lonely among her fashion-conscious and shopping-mad schoolmates, begins writing her pony story in exercise books (as was Cannan's own habit) and attains the apotheosis of acceptance by a publisher. She also sheds the...
Intertextuality and Influence
May Cannan
Soon MC
was once again, as during the war, writing not for herself alone but for a group. Women Demobilized, July 1919 deals with women whose men have been killed. It ends: Now in our...