Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press.
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Textual Production | Muriel Spark | MS
published her critical biography John Masefield, with an introduction describing her visit to him in December 1950. Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press. 8 Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable. 197 |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | Decades later she remembered praising Chekhov
, Hoffmansthal
, Ibsen
, and Strindberg
, while admitting that I mocked, censured, rebuked, tore down, with reckless delight, Shaw
, Yeats
, Masefield
, Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 69 |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information
once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations. Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 524 |
Textual Production | Flora Macdonald Mayor | It appeared with a preface by John Masefield
. The novel is written as a response to the social convention (for most an economic necessity) which bore on Mayor herself, that women's primary duty was... |
Textual Production | Ann Bridge | Some of her poems and sketches were sent at this time to the poet John Masefield
, whose brother was a family friend. He advised writing a novel, but by that time AB
had got... |
Textual Production | Muriel Spark | Planning a book about the poet John Masefield
, MS
visited him at his house on a freezing day, and heard him read his work. Baldwin, Dean, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 139. Gale Research. 139: 229 Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable. 197 |
Reception | Charlotte Mew | CM
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £75 a year on the recommendation of John Masefield
, Thomas Hardy
, and Walter de la Mare
. Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, p. vii - xx. xv Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research. 311 |
Reception | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
was one of those in the running for the position of Poet Laureate in succession to Robert Bridges
in summer1929. She later secretly hoped to succeed Bridges' successor, John Masefield
, and wrote a... |
Author summary | Kate O'Brien | KOB
, twentieth-century Irish writer, was successively a journalist, playwright, novelist, essayist, travel writer, and biographer. She was, she said, influenced by the singing voice and by dance music. Masefield
said, Don't despise dance music... |
Literary responses | John Millington Synge | John Masefield
in the old Dictionary of National Biographymentioned the Cuala Press
publication as strange ironical poems, so like the man speaking. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Literary responses | Flora Macdonald Mayor | The novel established FMM
's reputation for precise use of prose, “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 60741 (4 October 1980): 8 Williams, Merryn. Six Women Novelists, Macmillan. 45 |
Literary responses | Henry Handel Richardson | HHR
's husband recalled twenty years later how, although average consumers of circulating-library fiction may have been horrified, to young people interested in literary movements this book was a revelation: not merely a new kind... |
Leisure and Society | Margaret Kennedy | Poet Laureate John Masefield
presided over the event, and gave a speech which MK
admired. E. M. Forster
also attended the dinner. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 127-8 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Daryush | Through her mother's cousin Roger Fry
, ED
as a girl met many distinguished people as the friends and guests of her parents: W. B. Yeats
, Ezra Pound
, Henry Newbolt
, Mary Coleridge |
Friends, Associates | John Millington Synge | JMS
's major supporters in his dramatic career were William Butler Yeats
and Augusta, Lady Gregory
, who ran the Irish National Theatre
. Other famous literary supporters included G. K. Chesterton
, John Masefield |