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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Eleanor Farjeon | British Book News announced that this book gives Eleanor Farjeon a permanent place of honour between Stevenson
and Walter de la Mare
. British Book News. British Council. (1952): 122 |
Friends, Associates | Violet Hunt | VH
entertained here frequently: her sometimes piquantly mixed invitation lists included the names of H. D.
, D. H. Lawrence
, Ezra Pound
, Joseph Conrad
, Wyndham Lewis
, Walter de la Mare
... |
Publishing | Storm Jameson | SJ
contributed three essays to the English Review: one on Walter de la Mare
and two others on the United States. Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press. 71n56 Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 80, 165 |
Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | SJ
greatly admired Walter de la Mare
and they began to correspond in 1921, shortly before she published an essay on him in the English Review. She made several visits to his home at... |
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 | E. B. C. Jones | EBCJ
had many friends among the Bloomsbury group. Virginia Woolf
hovered between liking and disliking, feeling she could never become intimate with Topsy but welcoming the spruce shining mind. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press. 2: 156 |
Textual Production | Margery Lawrence | ML
first appeared in print when her father published her volume of early poetry, Songs of Childhood, and Other Verses. The Feminist Companion says she was sixteen at the time of publication, having dated... |
Literary responses | Marie Belloc Lowndes | As soon as The Lodger began to appear as a serial it brought MBL
fanmail, both from lodging-house-keepers and from literary men. In book form, she says, by contrast, it did not receive a single... |
Literary responses | Marie Belloc Lowndes | It was reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement by Walter de la Mare
, who wrote appreciatively of the faint arresting strangeness, the sense of sinister events impending, which is present from the opening sentence... |
Literary responses | Marie Belloc Lowndes | The Times Literary Supplement continued to employ the same reviewers for MBL
. De la Mare
expressed a certain disappointment with Jane Oglander on 16 March 1911; Harold Child
welcomed the turn back from murder... |
Friends, Associates | Rose Macaulay | Friends who attended the house-warming of her London flat included Naomi Royde-Smith
, Rupert Brooke
, and Walter de la Mare
. Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago. 100 |
Friends, Associates | Rose Macaulay | In 1921 RM
was spending several nights a week in a room she rented in the large house of writer Naomi Royde-Smith
at 44 Prince's Gardens, Kensington. Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray. 191 Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins. 100 |
Reception | Rose Macaulay | To celebrate the appearance of her collection, RM
threw a party at her flat to which she ambitiously invited Walter de la Mare
. He attended, as did her publisher for this book, Frank Sidgwick |
Literary responses | Rose Macaulay | Edward Thomas
, reviewing The Two Blind Countries for The Bookman, compared her poetry to de la Mare
's. Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins. 67-71 |
Literary responses | Rose Macaulay | The volume was much praised. The Athenæum called RMone of the most interesting of contemporary poets and a very accomplished metrist. Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago. 118 |
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