Stoney, Barbara. Enid Blyton. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Anthologization | Enid Blyton | It was perhaps EB
's high point as a poet when she had five pieces included in an anthology that also featured work by John Masefield
, Walter de la Mare
, and Rudyard Kipling
. Stoney, Barbara. Enid Blyton. Hodder and Stoughton. 49 |
Friends, Associates | Ann Bridge | AB
's correspondents included Ka Arnold-Foster
, John Betjeman
, E. M. Forster
, Margaret Haig Rhondda
, Margaret Irwin
, John Masefield
, Naomi Mitchison
, I. A. Richards
, Vita Sackville-West
, and... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | May Crommelin | The astronomer Andrew Crommelin
, who played a part in discovering the trajectory of Halley's comet, was a cousin of MC
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 45591 (14 August 1930): 15 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
death | Flora Macdonald Mayor | The Poet Laureate and literary critic John Masefield
wrote her obituary for The Times, but the paper, seeing that her works had either gone unnoticed or were now forgotten, refused its publication. Williams, Merryn. Six Women Novelists, Macmillan. 46 |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Pitter | RP
knew T. S. Eliot
well enough to enjoy a courtly encounter with him at a bus stop, but she felt his great innovations had not necessarily been a good thing for English poetry, and... |
Education | Mary Renault | Her godmother Aunt Bertha lent her the funds to attend Oxford. She was greatly influenced by the lectures of Gilbert Murray
, Regius Professor of Greek, who lectured on Greek drama and had also founded... |