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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Rose Tremain | When in 1983 the magazine Granta presented a list of twenty names identified as the Best Young British Novelists, RT
was among them (along with Pat Barker
, Martin Amis
, Salman Rushdie
... |
Friends, Associates | Zadie Smith | Through a Cambridge friend ZS
met (while she was a nineteen-year-old undergraduate, not a published writer) Ian McEwan
and Martin Amis
. It was at McEwan's wedding celebration, a party full of people from my... |
Literary responses | Zadie Smith | On the basis of this novel, The Times hailed ZS
as canonical, one of a handful of contemporary novelists who really matter and who, we may confidently assume, will last. |
Education | Michèle Roberts | She chose the medieval option. Her tutor was Rosemary Woolf
, and she studied no authors later than Shakespeare
. She reports the results of this in two different ways. In one version the course... |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Rendell | There RR
lent out estate cottages to avant-garde writers younger than herself, such as Martin Amis
, Julian Barnes
, and Jeanette Winterson
, to provide them with a place to write. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 627 |
Textual Features | Deborah Moggach | She offers a light-hearted explanation here for the gendered characteristics of women which, she believes, make them on average better writers and readers of fiction than men: they care more for gossip about the lives... |
Reception | Philip Larkin | Anthony Thwaite
edited PL
's Collected Poems in 1988 and his Selected Letters, 1940-1985, in 1992. Andrew Motion
published a biography in 1993. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Jane Howard | They had been living together for more than a year, and EJH
had already embarked on the difficult stepmother relationship with the three Amis children—especially the two boys, who were living with them, and were... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jane Howard | She took four years to write this novel, working with a new agent, A. D. Peters
. Having before this written fast and easily, she now reduced her speed to a crawl, with constant rewriting... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jane Howard | Before beginning this novel she asked the advice of her stepson Martin Amis
to help her choose between this and a present-day version of Austen
's Sense and Sensibility. He opted unhesitatingly for the... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jane Howard | Ruth Scurr
in the Telegraph judged EJH
to be as impressive a writer as ever in this novel, and instanced her handling of dialogue among children. Scurr, Ruth. “All Change, by Elizabeth Jane Howard, review”. The Telegraph. |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jane Howard | EJH
's stepson and fellow novelist Martin Amis
has written that Howard (with Iris Murdoch
) was the most interesting woman writer of her generation. Amis, Martin. Experience. Jonathan Cape. 215 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Germaine Greer | Also named as her lovers were film-maker Warren Beatty
and novelist Martin Amis
. Ellen, Barbara. “The Life of Germaine Greer review—an elusive firebrand”. theguardian.com. |
Occupation | Maggie Gee | Having been a temporary filing clerk before university, MG
worked from 1972 to 1974 for Elsevier International Press
at their offices in Oxford, then spent six months on the dole, writing. While working at... |
Reception | A. S. Byatt | David Jays
, in an article confessing his preference for the current lionesses to the lions among British novelists—a preference, that is, for ASB
, Zadie Smith
, A. L. Kennedy
, Sarah Waters
... |